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Show Utah Yield This Year to Be Increased by 60 Per Cent. i "Sixty per cent more wheat than last vear. or 1,000,000 more bushels will be j produced this year in Utah," said Ml-, ner M. Justin, of the bureau of crop estimates yesterday. "Winter wheat," Mr. Justin said. 1 "improved two points in condition dur-j lng May and the crop seems better than for several years. The condition condi-tion of spring wheat Is gcnorally good, although the acreage is 7000 less than in -1919. Generally the decrease is devoted to sugar beets. A shortage of seed was reported in Duchesne county. "Oats promises about a half million bushels more than last year, although the acreage is smaller. "The condition of barley sown in excellent, ex-cellent, forecasting a great produc-' tion than last year, although there is a decrease in the acreage. Rye shows ! better than last month with prospects' for la crop twice as large as last year. "Hay conditions have advanced sev- en points the past month until the: forecast is now for a crop 43 per cent1 larger than last year. The weevil has done little damage. ! "Sugar beets are doing well, the earlier plantings producing good stands but their plantings are hampered by crusted sUil following storms. "Fruits are unusually promising. The Dixie country was frosted severely se-verely this spring, affecting all classes Qf fruit. In the larger producing sections sec-tions of the state, peaches are the . only fruit which show poor prospects. Utah county has about two-thirds of a crop. "The crop acreages in the state are: Winter wheat, 16S.000; spring wheat, 133.000; oats, 70,000; barloy, 22,000. Alfalfa will harvest 3 13,000 tons." |