| Show WEEKLY CROP BULLETIN salt bait lake city utah aug 9 1898 during the fore part of the past week the weather was quite warm but the last four days were much cooler averaging about four degrees below normal heavy thunder showers occurred on the fourth and fifth relieving to a considerable extent the drought conditions which have been prevailing tor for several weeks back the showers were acom accompanied panted by high winds and in some localities by hall which did some damage to grain and fruit in many parts of the state the rain was most opportune and made marked improvement in the condition of corn potatoes sugar beets and the late sown grain harvesting and threshing continues and the yield is uniformly good in all 11 sections in the western and extreme southern sections ole water supply is getting quite short and more rain is in needed tor for the growing and maturing crops garland harvesting and thrashing in progress yield good Dewe deweyville grain harvest to is finished dry land grain turning out well second cutting of lubern in progress Mine roville water falling failing fast potatoes and fruit not so good as last year wheat crop better than last year lawrence harvesting is going on quite lively water scarce and hardly enough to mature crops smithfield all grain ripe and mostly cut second crop of lucern being cut corn and potatoes growing nicely levan A few more days and wheat harvest will be over oats just turning apricots ripe apples wormy and dropping from the trees bees doing first rate this season ranch haying going on and a good crop grain beginning to ripen weather hot and dry mt carmel extremely hot and dry late crops have suffered for want of water spring wheat ripe I 1 scipio grain harvest going on everything growing nicely deseret crops have suffered during the past week owing to the scarcity of water grain cutting has commenced also some lucern for seed holden harvesting in progress second cutting of lucern going ow ott aft crops good ia hinckley lucern seed damaged extreme dry hot weather axe are busy with the hay and grain cravie coyote A fine rain op the ath faram ers era busy cutting wild hay early sow grain ripening lake shore the rain storm on will do good to the corn potatoes ata sugar beets salem the fine rains thursday anaf friday have done much good to COBL potatoes beets melons etc thresher Thre shir i in progress second crop of imas lawra nearly all hauled lehi harvesting progressing araw s sugar beets much improved by the botiz rs cent rain payson heavy hall on ath cut cab bage and tomato plants to pieces WA ass ruined cucumbers and melon vines San santaquin threshing machines k e very busy dry grain yielding as alk fes as 46 45 bushels per acre hitch high damaged pear crop american fork most of the sma amah grain is harvested had a nice safra thursday night which male made S tion look fresh woodruff lucern about all in them tin will be no second crop on oll account not having water fall wheat to is bel cut and is a good crop spring hs and oats all out in head hay crop good H meadowville Meadow ville winter wheat Is b beto cut haying is getting pretty wiell along currants and raspberries rasp berries aak ripening very fast T circleville Clr Cir cleville the rains on 3rd ard and ew were of great benefit to vege another week of dry weather w 2 have dain damaged aged small grain to a g extent greenwich Drou drought gIrt of past t weeks broken by rate ralp on ath and first crop of lue lucern ern just stack stac yield heavy some grain turning Koo koosharem sharem haying in pro prom yield of lucern fifty per cent average rain on the ath and arll M much good to grain and second i of lucern kingston crops progressing wheat beginning to turn and cont ear spring MY city wheat and oats fea to harvest heavy wind and wak rain friday done some damage to hem grain Ct erH ar vesting going on on the ath lodged heavy grain as it difficult to cut manti Mantl Haying nearly finished ww harvest continues potatoes 1 ro good yield miller Second crop of lucern labh all cut grain about all cut and s water getting low holiday nice shower thiu apples and pears interior in m q peaches and apricots good oakley hay crop unusually 1 wheat very flattering and the peets for all small grain extra plenty of water coal collvile vile A nice rain on the jtb fab ter low and everything very dry fenced cutting grain i Hoyt oville haying in pro progress greas i grains on high land ripening fast I 1 righted lucern looking fine ane corn tn it silk glenwood fall wheat cut a wheat and oats turning color crop below the average plateau most of the tame taine graso gras 0 and up in stacks crops a good ave aver had a nice shower on the ath r heber A heavy gale on the ath M to heavy grain and damaged shade trees early apples ripening vesting going on st george water very low ja streams st reama unless we get rain am stubble corn and sorghum CP C P be injured Pinto Harvest bot comen commenced ced i 1 aj f 1 fast potatoes and corn are am ahw fast now now where there to Is mols we enough marriotti Marri otts grain all cut threshing daon ced second cutting of hay up fito corn said and potatoes short because of water local rains on the fai IOU and ath revived pastures which beets fine for first were dry sugar Z t J H SMITH action ution director salt lake city utah |
