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Show Crop Report For Utah The l' S. Government crop report Issued this week contains figures of Interest to most farmers. Lost year Utah produced C.420,000 bushels of wheat, which sold at an nvergae of cr cents per bushel. This year tho yield Jumped to 7,343,000 bushels nnd the price Is nveroglng 81 cents. The average price for the United States is fiG cents. For potatoes Utah's production is 2,940,000 bushels as compared with 3.C00.000 last year. This year potatoes pota-toes arc averaging 02 cents ns compared com-pared with G7 last year. In tho United Unit-ed States tho price this year Is averaging aver-aging 04 cents as compared with C9 ventB last year, showing that the price of potatoes in Utah and out side of Utah Is not fixed from tho same source. Potatoes In Utah will probably prob-ably drop. In sugar beets tho United States Is producing a half million tons less than last year, while In Utah tho yield has been Increased 89,000 tons. Thc production of hay has Incrcas. ed about 20 per cent ln Utnh, but tho average price has fallen but 10 cents per ton. November flm closed tho live yenr record of tho world's champion lieu raised by tho Poultry Dopartmont of tho Utah Agricultural Collegt. This hen has laid more eggs during tho past flvo years than nny other hen In tho world. During her career sho has laid 81C eggs, nvoroglng 2.1 ouncos apiece. Hens novo lnld more eggs ono year than Queen Utnna hut never hns one nny where near approached hor record for flvo years. For eight years tho Experiment Station nt Logan Lo-gan has been selecting and breeding poultry In effort to produce n hen that would meet tho conditions In Utah, To procuro a lion that can lay conslstnntly nnd abundantly for five or more consccutlvo years means millions mil-lions of dollars to tho poultrymen of Utah. The world's champion hen nt the Utah Agricultural Collego Is a pure bred, single comb White Leghorn of a perfect specimen. With her are fifteen hens, ranging from live to seven years In ago that havu laid over 700 eggs each, ond thlrty-nlno Iioiif that ore from four to seven years old having laid over COO eggs. - - - |