| Show I LATEST NEWS FROM INTERMOUNTAIN WEST NEST NESTI Nevada Montana Utah Wyoming Idaho Nevada Montana I LATE ATE SPRING SPRINGS SPRING'S FAVORS CROPS I Improvement Shown In in Condition Over Last Years Year's Report SALT Lo KE LU E Way May Although 14 14 tho 1323 1723 spring season has been termed a late spring in the agri agricultural agricultural cultural sections of oC the state It has been more for farm work ork than the spring of oC 1922 ac- ac according ac ae according cording to a report from the Iho Unit Unit- United Unit Unit-cj ed T States Stales bureau ot of agricultural economics reloaded released through Miner II Justin agricultural statistician of oC the bureau u for or Utah and No- No Nob Ne Nevada b vada ada The report also shows that win 1 win winter ter wheat rye and hay prospects all show improvement Maya Iao Ma 1 as compared with their condition on April 1 Says Sa s the report as summarized sum by Mr Ir Justin WINTER INTER WHEAT GAINS Utah winter wheat gained rive five points In condition in m April and isnow IS ISnow isnow now 90 SO per cent of o normal This Is 3 per cent lower than last year The percentage of the sown acre acre- aco ace alo abandoned is again small be be- be- be beIng being ing fug only 25 2 5 Last year ear It was only 2 per 11 cent The The acreage remaining for tor bar har harvest barvest barvest vest Is compared with 1000 1000 In 1922 The reduction at seed seed- seeding seeding ing time last fall Many Man growers feared losing seed teed put Dut Into dry fields nelds The The production forecast now Is bushels The crop last year ear was bushels after n a aMay aMay May 1 promise of bush bush- bushels bushels bushels els For For the th United States abandon abandonment abandonment ment totals acres acre corn com pared with last year ear The Tho acreage I Is 3 last year there was The condition now Is i SO 80 1 compared with 83 5 last season The production forecast Is bushels Last May It was W and the final production was wa estimated as RYE IMPROVES Utah rye 17 Improved five tiTO fn April and nd Is no now 96 95 per cent normal L Last t year It was 98 IS The Tho WInter loss was Insignificant Dt but the acreage creaco li Is onh no now compared with 12 last lait year The production forecast Is ll twelve bushels per acre or bushels compared with last season The Tb United States has now 5 5 a acres of rte 13 n e with a of o 85 1 and a promise of producing pro- pro bushels Last i y earthe ear carthe the acreage was 6 acres production was bushels and the May 1 condition was 91 7 A 2 per cent increase In tame h hay y acreage and a 1 per pOl cent do- do doI deI do I I crease In wild hay are Indicated by I Ithe byI the preliminary reports from Utah ThIs gives acres of tame hay bay and acres or of o wild ha hay hayThe The condition of bay hay Is 94 com com- compared compared spared corn pared with 99 la last t ear The fore fore- forecast forecast tore cast cast Is tons of tame lame hay and tons tonii of wild Last s y ear final estimate was tons ton of o tame tamo and tons of o wild hay STOCKS DEPLETED The Tho stocks of ot hay bay on farms been much depleted by the thelong thelong long feeding season and the large numbers number of o stock fed Ced for market The carryover thIs t year ear Is li estimated as i tons where last lait year ear It was The season has ba been more fa fa- fa fa In Utah for farm work than last year ear It Is li estimated that 71 per cent of o the plowing and 65 per percent percent cent of ot the planting was waa done don May Mav 4 1 where last year the figures wore 16 64 and 47 respectively respective t tOn On mortality ot or livestock tock for tor the year ended April 30 1923 the ro- ro report port ro-port I port sas says ia i Horses and mules dying from in Utah this year ear are estl as 2096 The preceding y ear eartho tho number was wa 1572 Cattle losses loises from disease In the tho are reported as a 18 IS per thou thou- thousand sand and while exposure losses were ere 25 per thousand Comparable CO fig figures figures I ures for the preceding year are 14 and 20 The greater tosses losses reported now actually occurred In May 1921 Losses from nil alt cause to- to totaled totaled to totaled the tho year lust just ended and In the tho preceding year ear Sheep losses loises from disease rose roso from 13 to 18 per thousand Losses from exposure rose from 25 to 30 per thousand in the year par ar Lamb losses went from 50 to 75 per thou thou- thousand thousand sand Again Agam the lo losses los ses es occurred at tho beginning of ot the period report thOU cd Sheep losses for the period total as against for fer forthe the preceding period Swine losses from Crom disease are reported as 20 per thousand now end Ind nd 23 a a year ago This makes the total number Dumber 1800 Instead of 2070 In the United States Stales the total number of ot horses horse and mules lost from disease In hi for the past year and the precedIng year Cattle losses from both hoth disease and exposure total 1 SO com com- compared compared pared sith Ith m in the Ing period 1285 Sheep losses amounted to 1285 1285 head as a compared with 1292 last year Swine Swin dying d ing from disease total this year and la last t year |
