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Show HEAVY PEACH CROP ISJRECASe The special eommerclnl peach re. port Issued by thu bureau of crop CHtlmateu shows that tho August fore, cast for. tho nation Is a production of 29,781,000 miDhcls as against I'O.&'J-.OOO bushels produced In 1918. Figures In Kansas crops r.ro Increased by earlier iitlnuitoH duo to excellent gi owing conditions con-ditions In July. A heavy crop of Alberta Al-berta pooches Is forecast In Colorado and In tho northwest goncrr.lly. Kstlmuto of I'tah's crop Is gleu at SOS.OOO bushels, ngnliiRt 7115.000 bush, ids hist year. Tlio condition of tho crop August 1, was 77, ns compared with "o at tho Hume rtr.to last year. Tlio ciop In lihih Is placed at ins,. 000 lrtishoN, almost four times ns great an production 'if last year, when the yield was 12.000 bushcln. From the Urlgh.Mu elty dlslrlet In I'tnli tho shipments will he about :i'0 cars, whllo from the Pleasant drove and Prowi Ilench legion shipments aro oNpccted to bo iibnut IHO cars, con-r.lstln' con-r.lstln' principally of Klberlns. Tlio state as a whole will ship about 1:100 cars, as compared with 1000 ears In 10tS. Tho heavy IClberla movement probably will take placo In tlio first ten days ot September. Though I'tah Is not classed as a pear state, from 37i to 10 cars will bu shipped out of tho Provo district this year. Tho total pear crop of (ho country la estlmrted at 8,:Hil,nOO hushiilf. lU'iilliHt 7,5S!i,000 bushels last year. o 1- . |