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Show OCTOBER 1ST CROP ' .ESTIMATE FOR UTAH Tho following crop estimates for Utah havo been madu this weok by tho Bureau of Agriculture up to October let: . Tho estimated average yield of Utuh spring wheat this year Is 26 bushel per acre. Thl8 8 practical, ly the same as last year. Tho total crop of both winter and spring wheats amounts to 5,686,000 bushels this sea. son compnrcd with 6,299,000 bushols Oats aro yielding somewhat moro heavily this year than last and the ucreago Is nlso lorgor. This years outturn promises to be 3,315,000 bushels or 15 per cent larger than last yoar, narloy ls making tho some ylold as last year but a larger acreugo means about 100,000 bushols moro grain. All grain yields are closo to the forecasts from growing conditions though ns fow throshor reports havo been made checking has not been completed to date. H Sugar beets, fruits, hay and truck I crops show no change from last month, every thing having been fair. H 1 fatorublo. H Alfalfa seed was harvested from .H 13,000 acres this year compared with H 12,000 last year. The yield is 65 bushels per acre this year and 67 ,, bushels lust year. Production will H approximate 72,000 bushels with H 68,000 Jast year. Yields aro below usual throughout the state except In H Uinta county, though they closely ,.H approach the usual yield In Millard H county. Every district la tho state 'H roports material damage from grass. 1 hoppers. This damage was a great H Tudor In roduclng the acreage In H Doxolder and Emery counties. The H principal Increase occured In Du. H chosno and Ulnia counties where the JW acreage nearly doubled. Millard also fl showed a good gain. H Pasture and ranges showed ma- 'M torlal declines in condition the past H month, tho greatest changes occur. B Hug ln Doxolder and San Juan coun. H tics whore condition Is only 65 and H 60 per cent of normal respectively. H Juab, Millard, Salt-Lake, and Utah counties aro also several points bo. H low tho state avcrago of 88 per cent. H In general prospects for winter range H are good. Rain would still be help. H fill In many places. H |
