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Show WHEAT CROP OUTLOOK GOOD After having harvested a large crop of wheat during the past year Utah farmers are anticipating that the 1928 returns from this crop will reach, if not exceed, the high mark set this year, according to Frank Andrews. ! government agricultural statistician, j Utah's winter wheat acreagke sown jthis fall amounts to 165.000 acres compared with 157.000 sown last fall a;-.:' 151.000 two years ago. a report issued by Mr. Andrews shows. The condition of Utah's winter . wheat on December 1 was 96 per cent cf normal, compared with 85 per cent j cf norma! on December 1 last year, and a ten-year average for that date j of ST. 5 per cent. The acreage cf rye in ! Utah is the same as in the past two years, according to Mr. Andrews, or , 4000 acres. This includes only rye in-I in-I tended to be harvested for grain and does not include rye pasture. This year Utah farmers have harvested har-vested 5.678.000 bushels of wheat, both spring and winter, from a total of 242.-000 242.-000 acres. Last year they harvested 5. 271.000 bushels from 237.000 acres. |