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Show jUtah Sugar Crop Will Be "Bumper Tho department of agriculture, according ac-cording to Washington dispatches, forecasts that. Utah will produce ; 1,331,000 tons of sugar beets this j sse:'.coii.cs compared to 1.3S9.S43 last j year, this estimate being based on a beet acreage of 110,900 acres this year, as against 116,100 acres a year ago. The condition of Utah beets July 1 was 95. three points above the ten-year average. Utah promises to have the largest yield of sugar beets of any state except ex-cept Colorado, whose yield is expected expect-ed to be 2,242,000 tons. The Idaho yield this year is forecast fore-cast at 467,000 tons, or more than tho crop of 1920. This in face of the fact that the Idaho acreage this year is 52,700, as against 57,600 in 1920, and is due largely to the condition of Idaho beets, which is reported to be 9S, the highest condition in the country, as compared to the ten-year average of 91. The Gunnison valley production of beets will figure conspicuously in the state's output. Reports from the field men are most encouraging, and the largest crop of beets ever known to this section will be harvested this fall. Tho "web worm" which caused some anxiety among the growers did little or no damage, and if the un-forseen un-forseen does not happen a "bumper crop" will be harvested. |