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Show Winter Wheat Crop Tho acreage of wlntor wheat sown In Utah this fall Is 88 por cent of last year's sowing, or 143,000 acros. Tho rovlsed estlmato for last. year is 162,000 acros. Tho condition of tho growing crop this yoar Is 70 por cent of normal compared with 80 last year. Tho reduction In acreago is probably prob-ably due in groator part to tho poor financial returns from wlntor wheat last soason, than to tho drputh this fall. Prleos nro low and when applied ap-plied to tho oxtremoly low yield many sections showed no return for tho offort mado in growing tho crop. Tho low growing condition Is roported rathor unformly from all socttons. Tho soil was too dry for o.n germination germi-nation nt Bocdtng so tho stand is spotted and growth Is very backward. Exceptionally favorable- conditions will bo nooded noxt spring to mako a crop. Tho present wcathor factors of snow covor on unfrozen ground aro good but must bo continued. For tho Unltod Stato3 tho aoroago this yoar is 46,069,000 compared with 47,611,00p last season. Tho present condition is 79.5 and a year ago was 76.0 por cent, Ryo acreago in Utah this yoar Is 90 por cant of Inst. This makes a sowing of 10,000 acres, as thoro wero 11,000 last year. Gowlng condition Is tho samo as last year or 80 por cent of normal, Tho country as a wholo shows a similar reduction In acreage sowing sow-ing bolng estimated as 5,508,000 acres whoro last year thoy woro 6,210,000. Condition now is 84.3 por cent normal wnero last yoar it waa 1 92.2. 1 Novada has 3,000 acros of winter 1 wheat and nbout 1,000 acros of ryo, 1 tho samo as last yoar. Tho condl- tlon of whoat Is 90 por cent or I normal lnstoad of 85. Ryo is report- 1 ed as 90 por cont normal whoro 70 j wns roported last year. ty. M. Justin, Agricultural Statistician. |