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Show Utah Vegetables Find Ready, Lucrative Markets Rich in vitamins, Utah vegetables vege-tables are rich in money, too. Last year Beehive State farmers received $3,580,000 for the four major vegetable crops sold to canncrs and other food processors. proces-sors. The state's farmers produced 112,900 tons of tomatoes, peas, sweet corn and snap beans for piocessing, reports C. W, Parry, Utah representative for American Can Company. The planting, cultivation and harvesting of the canning crops! required approximately 2,012,000 ! man hours of work, the can making mak-ing firm's representative said. More than 21,000 acres of Utah irrigated land were devoted to vegetables for processing in 1952, ho added. |