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Show UTAH'S WHEAT CROP INGREASESj Yield This Year to Better Last Year's Efy 26 Per Cent Utah will produce 5,844,000 bushels of wheat this year or 26 per cent more than last year, according to the Octo-per Octo-per crop report for Utah, Issued yesterday yes-terday by Miner M. Justin, of the fji ih bureau of crop estimates. Spring wheat this year yielded about 24.0 bushels per acre compared with 14.0 bushels last year. This increase Is greater than that shown by winter wheat due to a larger proportion of the crop growing under Irrigation. Lss than 10 per cent of winter wheat Is irrigated while over 78 per cent of spring wheat ix- artificially watered 'l ip- un rrlgated portion of the spring wheat crop probably will not average more than lu bushels per aero as much of It was a total failure. OATS AVERAGE. Oats will probably average 42.0 bushels per acre. This crop Is S7 perl cent Irrigated so was not as jnuch affected af-fected by the unfavorahle'cffect of the , weather on the dry land portion. Bar-by Bar-by is 7 7 per cent Irrigated and this , portion Is making excellent yields. The dry land barley was badly injured. j'( All grain crops show up better than last yenr because there was little lack ( ol irrigation water this season, while i, last season serious shortage was rather general Pol itoes show little change the past month the high expectations of the ariy season being seemingly well grounded. The production in the state) is estimated as 3.246,000 bushels or 136 percent of last year. Sugar beets also made satisfactory progress the past month. The total outturn will be the heaviest ever produced as the acr-age Is largely increased and growth has been verv good. I MR PPId ' t ROP Apples promise a very fair crop of excellent quality Picking was Just beginning the first of the month. Beans are yielding better than average but ihe acreage Is still becoming m Her. Tomatoes yielded well but the acreage Is smaller than usual so that production has slumped somewhat be. low last vear. Cabbages show an cx-celli cx-celli nt yield. 9 tons per acrt, but the acreage, never very large. Is reported less than usual. Onions are reported averaging 230 bushels per ai re with an acreage 9 per cent less than usual. Grapes ire yielding exceptionally well and quality seems good. Pears proved better than expected. Pastures and ranges are very good over most of the state and lute alfalfa growth Is producing a considerable amount of feed. Some will mako a light fourth cutting. Clover seed continues very promising promis-ing with a condition al harvest of Sh per cent. Alfalfa seed yield as estimated esti-mated as 4.9 bushels per acre compared com-pared with 4 5 bushels last y-ear. This v. as Interpreted as meaning 12 00H ai res with a production of 54,000 bushels of seed last year and the same. Interpretation now indicates 15,900 acres and 77,420 bushels of seed As little threshing has been done this estimate esti-mate Is purely preliminary oo |