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Show WINTER WHEAT HAS REDUCED ACREAGE Reduced a' re age planted In winter wheat this year is noted by M it. Justin, Jus-tin, statistician for the Doited State bureau of markets and crop estimates (for Utah, In a monthly report issued I yesterday. i The acreage of winter wheat sown In Utah this fall a 8 per c;nt of last year's sowing, or 143,000 acres, the rs-I rs-I port says. The re ised estimate for last year is 162,000 aeres. The condition condi-tion of the growing crop this year is '70 per cent of normal, compared with j SO lost y r The reduction in acreage is probably prob-ably due In greater part to the poor financial returns from winter wheat I last season than to tho drouth this ; fall I-'rires are low and when applied I I o the extromeK low yield, man;- Sfr-'tions Sfr-'tions showed no return for th? effort jmad In growing the crop. The low ! growing condition Is ropor ted rather l uniformly from all sections. Millard i.ind Sanpete counties with . i figure of 83 per cent are the exceptions. Tho soil was too dry for even germination I at seeding, po the stand 13 spotted !nnd growth is irery backward. Exceptionally Excep-tionally favorable conditions will be ' needed next spring to make a crop, j The present weather factors of snow cover on unfrozen ground are good, but must be continued. For the United States, the m renpo this year Is 4C,06r 000, compared with 4 7,611.000. last season. The present condition Is 7 0 5 and a year ago was 7 6 0 per cent Rye acreage in Utah this year is 90 per cent of last. This maker a sowing of 10,000 acres, as there wore 11,000 last year. Growing condition Is the sajne aa last year, or 80 per cent of normal. The country as a whole, shows a similar reduction In aercajre sowing being estimated as Fj. 508, 000 urn-?, where last year they were i,210 000 Condition now is 84. 3 per cent normal, nor-mal, where last year it was 92.2. Nevada has 3000 acres of winter wheat and about 1000 acres of rye, the same as last year. The condition of wheat Is 90 per cent of normal Instead of 85. Rye is reported a 10 per cent normal, where 70 per cent was reported report-ed laht year." |