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Show Wheat Crop Much LargerThanl934 Utah's 1935 wheat crops are estimated es-timated at 5,521,000 bushels, compared com-pared with 3,147,000 bushels in 1934, according to Frank Andrews, An-drews, state agricultural statistician. statisti-cian. This year's crop will be a-bout a-bout 33,000 bushels short of the five year average production during dur-ing 1928-1932. The oat crop will be somewhat larger than last year with an estimated es-timated yield of 1,632,000 bushels this year as compared with .832,-000 .832,-000 in 1934. Hay, potato, and sugar beet crops are also very much better this year, Mr. Andrews points out. Hay fields will yield approximately approxi-mately 1,201,000 tons as compared with 583,000 tons last year. The potato crop forecast is set at 2,-030,000 2,-030,000 bushels, which is almost double the 1934 crop. Judging from the condition of sugar beet fields on August 1, Utah's production will reach 540,-000 540,-000 tons. Last year the total was 250,000 tons; however, the five-year five-year average, 1928-1932, was 621,-000 621,-000 tons. The forecast for this year's orchard or-chard fruit production, together with the 1934 crops, follows: apples, 611,000 bushels (554,00 in 1934); peaches, 595,000 bushels (558,000 in 1934); pears, 54,000 bushels (53,000 last year); cherries, cher-ries, 3,540 tons (3,850 tons in 1934). Beaver county's hay and grain crops, with the exception of com, which is materially damaged by worms, are increased by an even greater percentage than the remainder re-mainder of the state, according to Lew Mar Price, Beaver County agent. The potato crop will probably prob-ably show little if any increase, but is of high quality. Dairy and beef production will be very materially ma-terially increased over last year, due to feed conditions. . o |