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Show Crops Prolific As Compared With '34 Utah's 1935 wheat crops are estimated est-imated at 5,521,000 bushels compared jwith 3,147,000 bushels in 1934, according ac-cording to Frank Andrews, state ag-i ag-i ricultural statistician. This year's crop will be about 33,-j 33,-j 000 bushels short of the five-year average production during 1928-1932. I The oat crop will be somewhat larger than last year with an estimated esti-mated yield of 1,632,000 bushels this year as compared with 832,000 in 1934. Hay, potato, and sugar beet crops are also very much better this year, Mr. Andrews points out. j Hay fields will yield approximately j 1,201,000 tons, as compared with 583,000 tons last year. The potato crop forecast is set at 2,030,000 bushels, which is almost double the : 1934 crop. ! Judging from the condition of sugar su-gar beet fields on August 1, Utah's 'production will reach 540,000 tons. Last year the total was 250,000 tons; however, the five-year average, 1923-1932, 1923-1932, is 021,000 tons. The forecast for this year's archard : fruit production, together with the 193-1 crops, follows: apples, 611,000 bushels, 551,000 in 1931; peaches, 595,000 bushels, 558,000 in 1931; pears, 54,000 bushels, 53,000 last 'year; cherries, 3,510 tons, 3,850 tons I in 1934. |