Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-07-26 | Page 4 | Idaho's Potato Outlook is Fine

ilDAHO'S PDTATD OUTLOJP FINE Summary Indicates That Crop This Year Will Yield About 6.186.000 Bushels B L'RLEY, Ida., July 26. Despite tho hlh prlc s of seed, potato acreage acre-age In Idaho shows an Increase this year, for 37,000 acres were planted ncainst 6 000 last year, according to I Julius H. Jacobson, field agent for the Idaho crop reporting service, in la weekly crop summary The crop Is reported as nourishing. A condi-I condi-I tlon of 96 per cent of normal Is in j marked contrast to 7 5 per cent on July I 1919. and Indicates a total crop of 6,186,000 bushels as compared compar-ed with 5.400,000 bushels harvested last year. Based on 700 bushels to the car. It la probable that the commercial crop will total 8.200 cars If present favor-! favor-! able conditions continue. The first shipments from the Caldwell district have already rolled, the price real-, real-, lzed being six cents a pound. In the United Slates there is total agricultural agri-cultural crop of 387, 486. 000 bushels, which is 29,688.000 bushels above the! 1919 crop and exceeds the 1914 to i HM8 average production by 5,586,-! 000 bushels lno nation-wide condition condi-tion Is 86.3 per cent of normal as ! compared witn 87. t per cent In July of last year. MAY CROP GOOD. The Idaho hay crop shows a condl-; condl-; tlon of 94 per cent of normal, fore-j fore-j casting 2.234,000 tons In contrast to 76 per cent of normal a year ago, and a final production of -1,760,000 1 ; ton.s. The first crop was stacked with ; llttlo loss In quality due to rains. There i i is much uncertainty as to prices. Some I has changed hands at $15 00 per ton I Prospects arc for an agricultural crop or 994. Ouo bushels of apples less than tho 4 360,000 crop In 1919. A special survey of the ten important producing counties of tho state Indicate Indi-cate a crop of 82 per cent of that of last year This, with smaller shipments ship-ments from other counties, wouhi mean 4.000 cars for tho state 81 . lt BEETS FLOURISH Tho sugar beet crop is In a flourishing flour-ishing condition. There are 60,800 acres, with a condition on July 1 of 95 per cent. A year ago the condition condi-tion was only 68 per cent of normal. andonly 30,331 acres were harvested. The forecast this year Is 608.000 tons, as against 203.000 tons in 1919 In the 1 nited States 978,500 acres of the latter were harvested. The July 1 forecast of manufactured beet sugar is 1 003. 500 tons, as against 726.500 tons In 1919 The average weight per fleece of wool this year is estimated at 8.1 pounds, while last year It was 8.4 pounds. A bad winter, shortage of teed and unfavorable spring conditions condi-tions were contributing factors to the decrease.