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Show Harvest labor adequate, report on Utah agriculture indicates vations. The Dixie areas completed com-pleted winter wheat harvest the last of June. Yields are expected ex-pected to be average to slightly above average. Test weights have been good on the small acreage harvested and protein content fair. Acreage abandoned abandon-ed due to lack of water, hail or insect damage has been very light to date. Harvesting of green peas for canning is nearing completion except in Wasatch County where it will begin this week. Yields have been good to very good. Some acreage was lost due to early frosts. Other vegetables veg-etables are making good growth and are now in the bud or bloom stage. Dry onions are doing well and some insect in-sect damage has been reported. Grass and brush fires have been minor to date. The fire potential is expected to be high during the next 90 days depending on the precipitation received. Grasshoppers continue to plague many areas causing damage to small grins. Weevil damage is still occurring but has subsided in some localities with most of the damage in alfalfa. al-falfa. Aphids and crickets are also causing very little damage dam-age in a few spotted locations. Ranges and livestock are in A weekly release from the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture offices of-fices in Salt Lake City, issued jontly by the office and the Utah Extension Service, gives the following report for Utah County: Winter wheat harvest will start July 24. Very little acreage ac-reage abandoned. Green pea harvest is progressing very well yield has been excellent excel-lent no problems or losses reported. Two canneries operating oper-ating in county Spanish Fork and Orem plants. Some grasshopper damage reported on garden and home grounds. Numerous reports of hoppers on ranges, also on the dry farm areas. Livestock in good condition. Flies are numerous. Labor is adequate to date. Scattered thunder shower activity ac-tivity was reported from many areas of the State during the past week. Amounts of precipitation precipi-tation were quite heavy in some areas but no major damage dam-age from hail was reported. Temperatures averaged near to little below normal in most sections of the State and con sequently there was no appreciable appre-ciable change in the percentage of accumulated energy for crop growth. The accumulation of growing degree days based on 40 degrees averaged 89 percent of normal in the southeastern sections of the State, 90 percent per-cent in the central and 94 percent per-cent in Northwestern Utah. Over the past weekend thunder storm activity became more general and of greater intensity. inten-sity. Some local flooding was reported in heavier shower areas. ar-eas. The 5-day forecast for the State for the period ending July 24 indicates a few light showers through Thursday in the northern section of the State but little or none in the south. Temperatures averaging three to five degrees below normal are expected for the period. Winter wheat harvest has begun in a few of the Northern North-ern counties during the past week. Harvest is expected to begin in many of other counties coun-ties during the next week, but will not start until August in a few counties at higher ele- good condition. Stock water supplies are adequate. Flies are a serious problem to livestock in several counties. Farm labor is in balance, according ac-cording to the Utah State Department De-partment of Employment Security. Se-curity. Some sugar beet workers work-ers marking time until the next crop activity, which will be primarily pole bean harvest around August 1. Cucumber picking is just beginning and a good crop is indicated. |