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Show UTAH REALIZES $35,190,320 ON FOUR CROPS FROM four of its crops wheat, oats, potatoes and hay Utah realized 35,190,320 this year as against $28,-245,000 $28,-245,000 last year, according to figures given out by the United States Department Depart-ment of Agriculture. Prices were figured fig-ured according to the averages prevailing prevail-ing November 1 of 1917 and 1916. The wheat crop, amounting to 6,955,- . 000 bushels,, brought $1:80 a bushel, or a total of $12,519,000 this year. -Last 4 year's crop was 6,900,000 bushels, which at $ii42 a bushel, wasvorth $9,797,000. The 4,488,000 bushels of oats at 79 cents brought $3,525,520 this year as against the $2,464,000 realized from the 4,480,-000 4,480,-000 bushels at 55 cents last year. Potatoes, which developed wide fluctuations fluc-tuations recently, were set down at -an average price of 66 cents by the government govern-ment experts. This brought the value of this year's 4,350,000 bushel crop to' $2,871,000. The crop last s.?.r was 3,600,000 which, at $1.02 a bushel, brought $3,672,000. The 1,334,000 tons of hay at $12.20 a ton . this year yielded $16,274,800, whereas the 947,000 tons last year at $13 reached a value of $12,311,000. Herald-Republican. |