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Show PEICH CROP I f A special commercial peach bulletin bulle-tin of the bureau of crop estimates, I'nited Stales department of agrlcul ture. comments on the Utah peai-h crop as follows: "Peach conditions throughout the I state are reported as favorable, although al-though some Injury has resulted from ,drouth. The Bngham City district. ! in Box Elder county will ship about 1350 cars, while the I'tah or Provo district dis-trict is now estimated at about 450 I cars, consisting principally of Fire rtafi The state as a whole has a consider-;'hh consider-;'hh better crop than lasty ear. and1 wili ship from 1200 to 1300 cars outside out-side of the state as compared with) 1000 cars In 191S " The general comment of the report says : "A 50 per cent decrease in commercial commer-cial peach forecast for New York, Michigan and Ohio during the month of June Is the salient Feature in the July special report for the United States The heav drop in the northern north-ern peach belt was due to peach leaf curl and brown rot in New York, peat h leaf conditions have been generally gen-erally unfavorable in all three states. "The southern peach crop turned OUt about as indicated in earlier estimates. es-timates. The Georgia crop will ap proximate TlOu cars as compared with 8300 cars lasi year Brown rot has caused I nsiderable loss in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas ThsV conditions in the western states roiWnuc favor able and almost a full crop is fore cast for regions west of the Rocky mountains California has prospects; for a bumper crop. 'Attention is called to the fact that1 approximate! ss per cent of the California Cal-ifornia peach crop is either canned r ' dried "The qualify of the peach crop generally gen-erally through the west is excellent " |