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Show CANNERIES ! WORKING j ONPEAS LI Tho cannlns factories In Weber ll county arc now busily engaged In IH handling the pea crop, some of them B working full capacity, putting up a3 H high as a thousand cases a day. H Manager W. J. Parfker of the Wa- , H satcb and other1 canning -.factories, H states that the early crop of peas H was damaged consledrably by the IH hailstorm of a few weeks ago and that J jl he does not look for more than two- H thirds of a crop. J jH Tho big crop to bo handled by the 1 tH canneries Is the tomato crop, which H will come on about August 1. IH Other fruits are canned at the fac- IB torles. The market for cherries is as jjM promising and the prices usually are JH so high that canning companies do jH not figure on using much of that fruit. lH Apricots will come In the course of a , H short time and a great deal of that H fruit will be canned for tho eastern B market. H It Is said by the canning men that H the tomato crop is late because of i H cold weather during the spring months H but that the crop will bo good. Some H of the early plants wore destroyed by H hall but they wero re-planted and the ' H late vines aro doing well. H |