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Show e?Se Estimates Show 103.8 Per Cent of Ten Year Figures Crops estim.'ites for I'tah for 1920 reach the gratifying proportions of 103.8 per cent of the ten-year average nnd 107 per cent for the United State as a whole, according to an official i. port Just received by Miner M. Justin, Jus-tin, agricultural statistician for the federal bureau of crop ,stim;ites. Oklahoma, with i percentrre of 14 St reaches the hlKh-watcr mark in the estimates as of September 1. Nebraska follows elosely In the ten-year average aver-age with 130 per cent, Kansas 130 and Wyoming 117. The gain In the month of August r,ll over the nation uau 1.7 per cent In Oklahoma the- gain In the one month rah as high an 1S.U per cunt. There was B decrease of 1.9 per cent In I'tah. while the loss reported was that of 10.2 per cent In North Dakota und 10.1 per cent in Montana. Where the percentage is now C 1 per cent of the aVerage, Hie low mark lor the nation. na-tion. Other weal-i n stales run. In percentages of average: Colorado, in? H; .New Mexico. 106, Arizona 97.4; Nevada. B0 . Idaho, loo. 2. Washington, j-. Oregon 100 2 and California, ye t Wheat this year will run in production produc-tion 81.8 per ce-nl of laet years crop: other important eropi comparing in percentage with last year's as follow; Corn, 107, t; oats. 11a 6. White potu-toes, potu-toes, 11S. 4; clover seed. If 1.8; hay. 98, sugar bt els. 100. f; upples, 150.7, peaches Bf.1; and so on- i ne estimated uumoer oi :hock iiors in the country un September 1 was . B per cant less thuii a year ago. The acreage intended for tloer seed Is estimated to bo 16.3 per cent more Ithnn cut last e.n . th condition is 10. ptr cent more than average. The bureau notes: j The level of prices paid producers lor the United States tor the principal crops dei ri'a-' l about 10 6 per cent during August; in the past ten years the price level decreased about 1.2 pel .-rit during August. n September Septem-ber 1 the Index figure of prices was about 7 2 per ce:it lower than a .,r ajro. 0.5 per cent higher than two ars ago. and oG.'J per cent higher than the average of the past ten years on Hoptember I, 1 The prices of meat animals to producers pro-ducers of the foiled States decreased 2 3 per cent. from Jul IS to August lb; in the piist ten years prices tn-ci tn-ci eased In like period 1.4 per cent. n August 1 .". thr Index figure of prices for these meat animals waa 22.1 per Icent lowr than year ago. 14.H per cent lower than two yea re ago und 3-! 1 p i in hlKhet than the average : : the past ti n peart on August 16." |