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Show Department Gives Timely Warning The department of agriculture, which has many experts in the field studying agriculture couditions throughout the United States, gives come timely advice to the farmers in ; Utah relative to the planting of wheat i Numerous facts are cited in an article 1 which follows, and tends to ishow that it has been proven from year to j year that a normal production of ' wheat, and its resultant high prices, 1 have tended to influence farmers to j plant too great an acerage and the. result the following year is a demor- j arizing price followed by heavy losses Mr. Mitchell-one of the leading farm-1 ers of the United States and who is also a Chicago banker in a recent copyright article, gave some valuable statistics relative to this matter. After ; months of making a survey of the situation sit-uation by a coterie of experts on the ; s subject, both local and foreign, Mr. ' . Mitchell advises wheat growers to ! weigh well the situation before going heavily into wheat. In an article recently re-cently appearing in the Utah Farmer, we find: Farmers are being cautioned by the U. S. department of agriculture and other farm agencies to guard against over-planting wheat this spring. Growers of hard spring wheat are told not to increase production a-bove dom-mestic dom-mestic reqirements, otherwise a decided decid-ed drop in the market, is said, may be expected. Winter wheat in the important producing pro-ducing countries is in fairly good condition, con-dition, and a crop equal, to that of I 1923 is promised. If Utah fanners confine their spring wheat acerage to approximate ly that of 1924, they will sow about 105,000. Authorities agree that this j acreage is to -be preferred over that of 1923, or 124,000 acres. The great incentive for more ex-ensive ex-ensive planting this spring is the high price for wheat, but farmers are to-minded to-minded that this price will not hold, nor even approximate its present height, if production is unduly increased. in-creased. Instead of planting more acres to wheat, it would be wise, in our opin- j ion to plant better seed of standard : varieties in the best possible seedbed, I in the hope of getting the maximum j returns per acre, from more bushels and from a better grade of grain. Wheat is a good crop for the irigat-ed irigat-ed farms of this region, in that it fits well into the cropping system and also because of the special market value. But there is every reason for confining- wheat to its proper place in a well ordered system of culture. |