Show SHOWERS HAVE AIDED CROPS Ranges Benefit find And nd Sugar Beets Beefs Arc Are D Developing Fast Although the skies bream became became over over- overcast over over-c cast t with dark clouds cloud and thunder and lightning played about late Friday evening the storm torm blew over with Ith scarcely a drop of rain rainfall failing fall ing The Th highest temperature Frida Friday afternoon was 11 9 degrees Fahren Fahren- Fahrenheit Fahren belt heit In th the shade shad and the coolest during the tb night was wu 17 67 This at 1 S o'clock the th mercury registered 75 Following Is I the th report of the theU theU V U S 3 department of agriculture on wr weather ther crop and range ranco conditions for the tir state for tor the week ending August IT Ii Local showers have hav benefited grazing ranges greatly though the thed d desert sert ranges ranee need rain for tor producing Inc ing fall fail and Inter w Inter forage torace Some fields of o sugar beets are aro develop develop- developIng developing ing log fairly well since the rainy we Alfalfa seed continues to strip rather rother badly In the major seed producing areas area Fruit Is la mostly In good condition D Beets were vero Im- Im Improved Im Improved proved by y rain at Smithfield where the crop crop Is la fair to excellent Grain has had too much rain at and some Is showing rust Rain last week Is aiding aiding- sugar beets at Span Span- SpanIsh SpanIsh Span Span-l Ish h Fork ork Fruit Is excellent at The Th grain Brain harvest Is over oer at ot pears pear and apples are arc excellent and pear picking will this week The grain er ln harvest Is nearly completed at ot Lev Levan n Showers have hav benefited ranges at Spring City but potatoes need needmore needmore more rain livestock are ar fat on 00 the high ranges ranee Hall tail did some om damage dam- dam dami I age oge i to standing grain and t to fruit at Manti precipitation Improved alfalfa At Richfield some ome alfalfa was bleach bleached Id I'd b by rain and the th sub sub- sub subsequent sequent drying process roads aregood arc are good grain cutting Is nearly corn om- om are ar Pan Pan Fan having been helped by re- re recent re cent re-cent cent rains General rains a week weck ago alfo greatly Improved th the ranges a Loa Los Alfalfa seed Is tripping stripping bad bad- badI bad badly ly I at Deseret along alone the river riTer and at Delta though there are some good fields ls In that general area orea Rain and favorable temperatures at Kanosh have given alfalfa seed se d da n a goOd food start Crops and ranges at Nada are very dry having had lit lit- little littie le tie tle since May f 6 Livestock are tro aregood good at Cedar City Alfalfa seed saed IS reported poor at Duchesne the second hay crop Is good rood roads are fair There has been much lauch nl- nl alfalfa al alfalfa falfa faUn seed stripping at tylon SonIc SOllIe hull hall damage The third nl- nl alfalfa al alfalfa falfa hay crop Is doing loin el cL cl at Pried PricE Ranges ha have vo rE n at t tEmery and Emery and arc are now In good shape |