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Show UTAH HARVEST 1 OUTLOOK FAR! Slight Changes in Crop Forecasts Noted By U. S. Observer Winter wheat, rye and hay crop prospects In Utah ..re slightly less cn-(couragin cn-(couragin while spsing wheat, sugar beets and apples promise larger harvests har-vests than expected, according to the August crop report Just Issued by M St. Justin, agricultural statistician of jtho U. S department of agriculture. In the state capital. Mr. Justin's report re-port reads: POTATOES DOING WELL. Winter wheat In I tah will yield only 14 bUShell per acre Only tWO other ears have been poorer, 191H with 12.7 bushels ,-,nd 1 393 with 13-8. 'i lie total production of winter whest will bS only 2.03aono bushels, nearly! 100,000 bushels less than expected a i month ago. Forty per cent of this! difference is made up in the Improv-lefl Improv-lefl condition of spring wheat whieli 'now promises 3,889,000 bushels Instead In-stead Of 3.26S.OO0. j Rye Is averaging 10 hushels per, acre, following winter wheat In a de-j ollnS in prosnscts. The outturn will j be 120,000 bushels or 20 000 less than last year Mher grains kcop a coi - j dltlon figure about average or better bet-ter and with the Increased acreages' will make a considerably greater production pro-duction than last car stocks of oats on farms are 1ST.- j 000 bushels compared with 440,f00i last year Barley ntocks on farms are 10. 000 bushels, where the carryover, last yeai was f9 000 bushels, potatoes have remained practically unchanged In condition the pnst : month. In neatly all the Important' ported. Salt Jake is the exception with only 7 7 per cent of normal. Beaver Bea-ver reports 75 and San Juan 70, but these have much smaller acreages Sugar beets for the state Improved three points In condition. Gains of from 3 to 17 points were made in Cache, Morgan and Weber counties These were partly balanced by an 11-polnt 11-polnt de( line in Bait Lake county and a three-point drop In I'tah count) PEACHES GR ITTFSTBfG. Hay shows a sllxhi dimming of the splendid pro-.pert -vhlch has exlste.l ;i)l season, but Ptlli promises an excellent ex-cellent orop Pastures and ranges Have declined four points the past month, though thoy aro In average condition. Box Elder aud San Juan report 7 6 and 7 0 renpectl vely with Tooele at 80. Xo other county Is more than two points below tho state average aver-age of S8, and most of them are comfortably com-fortably above that figure. Truck eropa continue to do well and show nvuch the same figures as last month Apples promise about three per cent better than last month Condition Condi-tion In Important counties Is reported report-ed as follows Box Elder, 79; Cache. 60; Davis 12; Weber, 92; Salt Jake 7S rtuh. 8fi Th non-shipping counties, coun-ties, especially those at the higher elevations, el-evations, report the high' SI condition figures of several years. Peaches have made gratifying growth The promised production is now almost seven per cent greatei than a month :igi Vendition has improved im-proved eight points in Davis, three points in Bali bake and two points in I'tah county. Other places .show little change Pears continue unchanged un-changed Just a little above last year. on |