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Show Farmers Favor Winter Wheat Salt Lake City. The trend toward winter wheat iu the intermountcin s.aies, 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, t Utah farmers intend to plant 6 per I cent more acres to winter wheat this ; fall thr.n were plnated last fall for this rear's harvest, while Idaho farmers in-, in-, dictate an intention to plant approxi-: approxi-: mately 20 per cent more land to wiu-, wiu-, ter wheat than last year. This in- tc;i mountain trend is parallel to developments de-velopments over the country as a ! whole, where 11.4 per cent more acres ! will be planted to winter wheat this , fall for the 1927 harvest than were ' planted last fall. |