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Show GREAT YEAR FOR THE FARMER, STOCK-GROWER STOCK-GROWER MM FLDGKMASTER Taken all in all, the. fawner and the live stock Krow or hae enjoyed en-joyed a KencrouH haro of the prosperity of the Htate duriiiK the ear (1910) just closed. All farm products fruits, ckkh, butter, wheat, hay and fowls hae advanced from .'10 to GO per cent, and in most instances the jlcltls lme been bounteous. Wheat, which v year njjo was imiiKinK mound 1.25, is now un to about $1.75; Iioks, from $0.75 to 10.00; cattle, from around 15.75 to around S9.00; potatoes, from ninety tents to $1.50; butter, from twenty-live twenty-live to forty cents, and so on down the lino. I'lockmasters Expect Higher Prices. Wooljcrowers are ospccially jubilant. Not in more than a quarter of a century have l etui ns been equal to what Is pi omitted for the comliu? clip. Wool which sold around twenty cents at top piico in former jears is now bchiK held for forty cents, anil there are excellent indications that the sale price of the best grades of domestic wool will bo in the neihlorhood of forty cents. Just what the value of the farm and live stock pioducts mm-keted mm-keted during the past year was it is difficult to estimate. Tie fruit ci op was about the only one that was not abundant, but the demand and high prices for other farm products made the funnel funn-el forget for the moment the damage of the late frosts last spring. What fruit there was brought high prices, but the crop in the central and northern parts of the state was considerably below be-low normal. Live Stock Values In the State. Although the returns from farm and live stock products for : tho j car nre not available, a fair estimate of tho wealth represented represent-ed by these lines of endeavor In Utah may be obtained from the : stato tax lists. The total valuation of live stock in the state last i spring wns $28,7IW,249, according to the tax records. |