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Show WINTER WHEAT GISJ UTAH State Should Harvest Over Million More Bushels Than Last Year "Utah should harvest 1,132,000 bush-els bush-els more winter wheat this year than last, according to present prospects." This announcement was made yesterday yester-day by Miner M. Justin, field agent for the United States bureau of crop estimates, on receipt of advices from the Washington office with regard to winter losses and present condition of farm crops, progress of spring farm work and loss to livestock from disease dis-ease and exposure. The report shows that losses to livestock live-stock have been unusually heavy. For example, seventy-.five sheep a thousand thous-and in tho state are reported to have died of exposure this year, as compared com-pared with twenty a thousand last year, while the loss of cattle this year reached the total of fifty-eight a thousand, thous-and, as compared with nineteen last year and an average of ten years of 23 per thousand. |