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Show 'GROWTH OF WINTER WHEAT STIMULATED Growth of tlio winter wheat crop has been greatly stimulated by the early spring weather md tho grain prt sents a healthy appearance and color, according to the semimonthly i rop notes of the United States bureau bu-reau of crop estimates Moisture conditions con-ditions throughout the country are I generally favorable although more 'moisture Is needed in Montana, where the condition is reported from fair to, poor. TREES BLOOMING. "Poach, pear and plum trees," Fays the suinniarv, 'aro commencing to I bloom in tho southern states and the i outlook for good crops Is favorable j The citrus fruit prospects continue excellent ex-cellent in Florida. A largo cherry I crop la expected In California Very little damage to fruit of any kind is I reported from any section of the conn-1 "The mild winter and abundant feed have been favorable to all classes of livestock Only a few scattered cases of hog cholera aro reported. A large Increase in the number of calves and lambs Is expected in Wyoming this spring." CROP REPORTER The Monthly Crop KenortPi, also1 published by the United States department depart-ment of agriculture, gives the estimat ed value of wheat on the farms in Utah as $1 28. March 1 ol this year, as against $2.37 a bushel one year ago. , other cereals show decreases in about ihe same proportion. The heaviest decrease in tho prices of the Important Impor-tant farm crops In this state is that lot potatoes, which this ear are worth on the farm 68 cents a bushel, as compared with 52.12 a bushel a Ncni ago Hay has dropped from, $25.40 to $11.50 n ton on the average.! Butter is given at 43 cents a pound, J as compared with 55 cents a year ago; eggs bring 25 cents a dozen, March 1.1 compared with 38 cents a year ago.i while chickens this year are worth 21 cents a pound, compared with 218 a' year ago. Beef cattle are given as worth on the farm $5.90 a hundred, as compared with $8.30 a year ago, while - r hog prices this year aro $9 20, com-1 pared with $12.70 last year. PEAK IN 1919. The Reporter also presents an in toresting chart showing t hat the I prices of commodities which the farm I er has to sell reached their peak in' 1919. and commenced a sharp decline j in 1920, dropping In the year from 218 per cent oJ the 1919 price to 190 per cent. Prices of articles purchased by! the farmers, however, while only 2121 per cent of 1909 prices in 1919, kept on their climb until in 1920 they were 225 per cent of the 1909 prices. The purchasing power of one acre of ground, represented by 100 in 1910. had reached HI in 1919, but dropped to 67 In 1920, according to the same authority. It is rpiite probable that, were the curve continued for the first three months, in 1920, the prices of commod-j Ities purchased by thb farmer would show a decline from the 1920 peak.' |