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Show STATE CROPS IN G0ODGONDITI0N Fruit Ripens Favorably Under Generally Favorable Weather 1 Crops of the stale fared well during jthe past week, according to the woek-ly woek-ly crop and range bulienn issued c; terday by J. Cecil Alter, in charge of ;the Salt Lake office of the Unite,! (States weather bureau. Fruit has I grown and ripened favorably and vegetables vege-tables thrived tin report stated. The bulletin follows The weather has continued some 'what warmer and drier than normal. I with generally fair skies These con Iditions have been very favorable for 'the ripening of early varieties of ap pies, and fall fruit generally has continued con-tinued to develop satisfactorily. A Ugh, crop of peaches of good quality is be clnning to ripen locally. Melons have done well and some shipments from Utah valley are being made. Showers of the past two weeks have benefited potatoes, sugar beets truck and vegetable crops generally. Silage and other corn h is done fairly well, but it is needing rain in lion. Sanpete and other counties. The weather has been hlgtily favor able for grain thrashing and for har vesting in the higher and mors northerly north-erly fields. The wheat harvest is now-well now-well along towards completion and considerable thrashing has been done The second crop of alfalfa Is being cut in the middle and northern portions por-tions of the state, where it has done well in Iron and Emery county it has not done so well In Tooele and Car bon counties the second crops are out of the way and the third crop very promising. Alfalfa seed In doing very well gen-erallv; gen-erallv; some cutting will begin about September 1 In Millard county. Fall plowing has been started in scattered localities. The lower ranges con'inu -very drv, but the upper ranees are good, and cattle and sheep doing well generally. Highways still reflect some of the benefits of last week's showers. |