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Show lali Crop Report For September 1 pah's crops of sugar beets, po-toes po-toes and hay are better than they ere a month ago and larger yields " now expected than were indicat-'fby indicat-'fby conditions on August 1. The 'rotable growing weather In the t month increased the prospective prospec-tive yields, so that now the forecast , ue sugar beet crop this season is ,;000 tons compared with 637,000 Joduced last year on a larger acre-, jjj. the potato crop also on a much sailer acreage than in 1928 pro-jjses pro-jjses a total production this year of 2 779,00 bushels, compared with 3, 312,000 in 1928 and a five-year aver. J ot 2,488,000. The total crop of lit is now forecast at 1,656,000 tons, coiapared with 1,500,000 last year and , five-year average of 1,627,000. In tie past the old hay on han'd at the beginning of summer has averaged ibout 200,000 tons, but this summer, Here was a very small amount retaining re-taining after the winter feeding sea- i itn was over. The total hay supplies tlis season are almost equal to the average for the five years 1923-1927, counting both the year's production i ad lie carry-over of old hay. The present outlook Indicates a production of spring wheat-at 2,912, (!) bushels, which, a!dded to the tinier wheat crop, makes a total pro-itction pro-itction in Utah of 5,837,000 bushels, compared with 6,861,000 in 1928 and live-year average of 5,431,000. Oats sre now expected to amount to 2,. !!!,000 bushels this year compared tltt 2,475,000 last year and an aver-!?e aver-!?e ot 2,398,000; while the barley (rop this year is now estimated at 1,I!J,000 compared with 1,666,000 in 1S28 an'd a five-year average of 855,-M 855,-M bushels. Tie total apple crop is forecast at 'iO.OO bushels, compared with 880,- in 1928 and an average of 899,- IS; peaches are estimated at 506,-'' 506,-'' bushels, while last year's crop counted to 612,000 and the average 1S23-1927 was 553,000. This I jar's pear crop is estimated at 70,-j! 70,-j! bushels, compared with 87,000 in "8 and a flve.year average of 60,-Tne 60,-Tne onion crop is forecast at 460,-' 460,-' bushels, compare'd with 520,000 in ''8 and an average in 1924-1927 of ,000. Malta seed was severely injured '? adverse weather and by insect bo that the condition of the '"P on September 1, 1929, was only r wnt of normal, compared with ; war ag0 on that date. No fore-- fore-- ''of this crop is made at this time much depends upon the time ; t(e nrst killing frost of the fall. e wop matures just about the frost, so an early frost Is educejheyield materially. |