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Show FLOURWILL STAY UP No Prospect of Lower Prices for Cereals. WHEAT ACREAGE IS SMALL Owing to the Increased Area riantcd in Sugar Beets, Dealers in Ornin Trcdlct That Utnh Will Not Raise Enough Wheat to Supply tho Local Demand Crop Trospects Oood in Irrigated Region Harvesting Begun Be-gun in Sea-ions Dull Maikct in Local Securities. t H, Vveekenllng -X , , . Jul 12 Jul 19 e- Dink clearing. Jsisjjv JjisfMl Realty transrers . imno, romi Building permits M ior, mm f -r - f .f - Although wheat Inrv eating Is already at hind and Indications point to u goo 1 crop In Utah, theie Is very little pros pect of a rcduuion In the prevailing ? rh.uB ?.f l!our Tl,e tea'm ' for this Is that the airenge of wheat has materially decreased, owing lo the lm reased production of sugar beets an 1 m". ?ml "'I '""I "ut'P of "heat V li.r"Jt t'0 ",arl' efficient tn meet the local demand The niiunil result will bo the shipment of grain from other Htntes, nt high freight rites and the prke of cereal products will remilii ubout whero they are Local grnln merchants predict that new who it will open nt about 70 cents n bushel ns icmpired wl'h CS lo CO cent, last year Harvesting In dry farms In Tooele nnd Salt I,ake counties! coun-ties! last week showed a rather poor crop, although In the lirlgated lortlons of the Mate the when looks good and there Is every promise of n good yield Tho last l)lR ruin enrly In tho month helped the winter wheat a grent ileal, and the fanners are feeling very good over the crop prospects The nllurlne profits In sugar beet raising have been tho cause or changing the ugrlcultuinl aspect nt the Stato to an Importnnt degree. The fnrmcr who raises wheat considers himself fortunate fortu-nate to get HO nn acre gross for his product. Willi sugar beets, however, reward of $50 tn $ro nn arro nre not uncommon. Alfalfa nlso pays better thnn wheat, nnd Ihe result Is a rapidly decreasing area of wheat plinted This Is bound to have Its effect on tho prices of cereal products |