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Show uu IN BEET CMC Week Generally Fair for Most Interests, Says Crop Report Good rains fell In the northern half' of I'tah and temperatures were mo'l- ' erately high, making this a good week for most interests, says the weekl crop and rungr report issues by J Cecil Alter, state meterologlst. The report continues: The fine weather forced the toma- j to crop ahead rapidly, congesting the1 canneries generally. The fall and Winter pastures have been Improved by the rain. Beet digging is prog-resslng prog-resslng favorably and tomato picking is nearly completed, In southwestern ! I'tah the droughty weather continues and fall grain is germinating and growing unsatisfactorily In places and , the range Is not doing very well Mor , snow In the mountains has made them untenable, even in southern I tah, and a general movement of livestock from the summer ranges continues. There 1 is a grat deal of shipping, especially of lambs. Practically all stock are In j good condition. Sheep dipping and I lamb shipping are in progress In ' ! Grand and San Juan counties. Stock are nearly all off the summer range in Garfield county, and sheep and cat- j 11 are leaving the mountains in Washington county Some sheep hae' come Into the Modena district, though the range In only fair, and Is deter-loratlng deter-loratlng from lack of moisture. Threshing and fall seeding continue at Levan under favorable weather con- I dltlons; and apple picking and ship-ping ship-ping continue in Utah and Salt Lake ! valleys, this work being about half f Inlshe.d. Highways h.'ne been improved in : many districts, though in the Salt, Lake and I'tah valleys heavy ruins have made them muddy, and in ex-! treme southern Utah they are still very d ry . |