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Show UTAn WHEAT CROP PASSES 1927 OUTPUT und CrP ''Si'CUs ich have undeigone some changes during the past six months, now place the state's hn,f I01'? at 6'372'000 bushels' over half of which has been harvested. The 1927 production was 5,678.000 bushels. This forecast given by the monthly agricultural report released Friday by Frank Andrews, United States statistician, statis-tician, is somewhat larger than the estimates made a month ago and show an increase a month ago and show an increase of about 694,000 bushels over last year's harvest. Oats and barley are now forecast at 3,566,000 bushels or about 1 per cent greater than the July 1 estimates, but a very little increase over last year. Present prospects point to a hav production this season of 1,601,000 tons while earlier estimates placed the tonnage at 1,652,000. Dry weather in July is given as the reason for the reduction. re-duction. Last year's total was 1.574,000 tons, a comparatively small amoimt due to the reduced tonnage of the first cutting of alfalfa of the 1927 crop. Fruit prospects generally improved during July, with the commercial apple production now forecast at 579,-000 579,-000 bushels compared with the low figure of 402,000 bushels in 1927. Other estimates are: Peaches, 640,000 bushels now as compared with 561,000 bushels in 1927; pears, 86,000 bushels this year, 60,000 last year; and the cherry crop which, is practically all harvested yielding 4.200 tons as compared with 3.800 tons in 1927. |