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Show Farmers Favor Winter Wheat Salt Lake City. The trend toward winter wheat in the intermountain states, adopted by farmers as a means of beating the frequent uncertainty of spring planting, continues, this fall, according to statistics issued recently by the Utah statistician for the United Uni-ted States department of agriculture. Utah farmers intend to plant G per cent more acres to winter wheat this fall than were plnated last fall for this year's harvest, while Idaho farmers in-dic.Hle in-dic.Hle an intention to plant approximately approxi-mately 20 per cent more land to winter win-ter wheat than last year. This in-tei in-tei mountain trend is parallel to developments de-velopments over the country as a whole, where 14.4 per cent more acres will be planted to winter wheat this fall for the 1927 harvest than wei planted last fall. |