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Show COLD WEATHER GOOD AND BAD Farmers' Spring Planting I Delayed; Fall Prospects Encouraging The unusually cold and stormy weather ha-s delayed spring plowing more than ln any other vear since luiumg in iiu .nay crop report re-port issued yesterday from the office ' of Miner M. Justin, agricultural statistician sta-tistician for the United States bureau of markets and crop estimates, but has nlso served to give encouraging prospects for fall-sown grains and Tor hay. the report states "April produced n further rise In the condition of winter wheat in Utah. The flcure now slnnds nt Q.l hi .-(ni of normal, compared with S9 per 1 I lit last month and 98 per cent a year ago About I per cent of the area sown lat fall probably will not be harvested. This Is the smallest abandonment In many years, an especially good showing show-ing In view of the low condition at the beginning of winter If the present prospects continue until harvest, the crop will total 2,611.00ft bushels. "The condition of rye has risen from 94 to 98 per cent of normal. This indicates the probability of the crop being Hr., 000 bushels. "The condition of hay Is 99 per cent, compared with 97 per cent last year Growth Is backward. but moisture prospects are exceptionally favorable. The acreage of tame haj shows an increase" of 2 per cent, bringing the to- 1 tai acreage to 600,000 The forecast of tame hay production Is 1.375,000 tons Wild huy acreage Is slightly reduced. re-duced. Some low-lying areus are expected ex-pected to be too wet to harvest. The present acreage of 104.000 will yield 1 j 1.000 tons from present Indications. The p rcf-nt.ige of last year's crop carried car-ried over is is, compared with 22 last year The tonnage represented Is 252.-000 252.-000 now and 295,000 last year. "Pasture is very backward, having a condition of only 85 per cent, compared com-pared with 93 per cent last year, and an average of 89. "Plowing for spring planting Is only f.A per cent done. This is (he smallest percentage since 1914, ana compai with S'j last year. Sowlnc and planting plant-ing is only 47 per cent completed. This is also a new low record and compares with 7a last year. "The condition of livestock Is very good, with the exception of 1 sheep, which are slightly below average. The losses of livestock from disease have j been exceptionally light the past year. 1 Exposure losses of sheen and lambs I are larger by half than fast year but arc not as large as in many other years other kinds of sHock show lather la-ther light losses from exposure." |