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Show Beet Crop Reported to Show Gain This Year For the current season the inter-mountain inter-mountain sugar beet production was forecast by the department of agriculture agri-culture last week as showing a larger larg-er relative gain than beet production produc-tion throughout the United States. According to a report issued, with average conditions between now and 62o,000 tons of sugar beets this year as compared with 621,000 tons last year. Sugar beet acreage in Utah was expanded from 36,000 in 1936 to 50 000 in 1937, the report indicates. In the crop report for Utah as of August 1, issued by Prank Andrews agricultural statistician, all Utah grain crops, except oats, show a marked increase over 1936, while fruit crops, which suffered freezing buds last winter, were said to show an abrupt decline in anticipated production. Wheat production in Utah is estimated esti-mated at 5,576,000 bushels as compared com-pared with 4,477,000 bushels in 1936. Utah's potato crop, much of which already has been harvested, is estimated esti-mated at 2,077,000 bushels, winch compares iavorably with a 1936 crop of 1,830,000. Oat production was placed at 1,012,000 bushels in 1937 as compared with 1,080,000 in 1936; barley at 1,980,000 bushels in 1937 as compared com-pared with 1,739,000 in 1936; corn at 550,000 bushels in 1937 as compared com-pared with 525,000 in 1936; rye at 24,000 bushels in 1937 as compared with 12,000 bushels in 1336. o |
