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Show Harvesting of Dry Land Wheat Begins in Valley Somewheitf between 2000 and 2500 acres of dry land wheat, grown by local farmers in Parowan Paro-wan valley this year, has ripened quickly during the past few weeks of hot weather and the harvesting of this large acreage of grain has started. Not enough has been combined as yet to tell how good it is but prospects are for an average yield of around 15 bushels per &cre of good plump grain from most of the land. While Parowan valley can't be called a dry land wheat producing produc-ing area as yet, more land is being broken up and put into this class of crop raising every year as it has been proven that dry land wheat can be grown profitably here most years. A few large growers will harvest har-vest the bulk of this year's crop, although many farmers have small acreages. Earl Bunn, with 875 acres, which he intends to begin harvesting today, is the largest wheat grower. 550 acres of Mr. Bunn's grain is along highway 91 between Parowan and Summit, 250 acres Is on land leased from the Lyman brothers broth-ers near the west hills and 75 acres are leased from the Farrow Far-row brothers north of the Summit Sum-mit fields. Emil J. Graff of Hurricane will harvest approximately 300 acres of wheat and II. L. and Roy Adams a similar amount on land located north of highway 91 between here and Paragonah. Howard Adams has a considerable consider-able acreage in that vicinity. Several others have plantings in various parts of the valley. |
