Beaver County News | 1926-08-27 | Page 2 | Farmers Favor Winter Wheat

Farmers Favor Winter Wheat Salt Lake City. The trend toward winter wheat in the intermountain states, adopted by farmers as a means of beating the frequent uncertainty of spring planting, continues this fall, according to statistics issued recently by the Utah statistician for the Uni-' ted States department of agriculture. Utah farmers intend to plant 6 per cent more acres to winter wheat this fall then were plnated last fall for this year's harvest, while Idaho farmers indicate in-dicate an intention to plant approximately approxi-mately 20 per cent more land to winter win-ter wheat than last year. This inter in-ter mountain trend is parallel to developments de-velopments over the country as a whole, where 14.4 per cent more acres will be planted to winter wheat this fall for the 1927 harvest than were planted last fall.