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Show THURSDAY, Were expecting a good year of crops, A. M. Farrell Superintendent of the Del Monte Franklin Plant said x ' looks stronger for this year than it has looked in the last five or six years. . He said corn production will remain on a par with looking ahead to 1974. Our contracting has gone well. We expect to contract our full allotments. The Franklin plant, No. 130, handles mostly green beans and sauerkraut and Farrell says that the plant is anticipating a good year for both. In the Mountain States Division, Del Monte has two previous years. v mixed-vegetab- Farmers United States may soon reach the end of their rope. A twine shortage looks likely for the 1974 haying season, since about 90 per cent of the crop is baled, usually with baling twine. Synthetics may be able to substitute for some natural fiber twine, but a trend to harvesting techniques that do not require tying, such as le northern TOP PRODUCT A. M. Farrell, superintendent of the Franklin Del Monte plant, holds asample of Del Montes fine bean crop. Utah and into Franklin County. Farrell explained that the plant operation moves with the temperatures - beans from Utah are processed first then the later developing ones from Franklin County are handled. "Because of cooler temperatures in this area, it is conducive to good quality beans, Farrell explained. "Franklin County also grows some of the best cabbage in the country. Because of temp-eraturthe cabbage is said of the he excellent, cool nights and days. The Franklin factory employs about 400 people durperiods ing peak double-shi- ft for bean handling and about 200 in double shifts for cabbage. Smithfields plant employs about 300 persons for its pea and corn seasons. The pea campaign starts the last part of June and ends the last of The corn run starts about the first of August and runs through September. The plant combines area-grow- n carrots and lima beans from the Burley plant into its mixed vegetable (West on 5th South Off Redwood Road) SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 84104 employ-nu'n- t. plants stretching not only across this country but to foreign lands as well. the loose hay, stacking, and rolling, may lower twine demand. The impending twine shortage stems from a significant sisal production setback in East Africa where extended poor growing conditions have existed for the past several years and from a growing world demand for natural cordage fibers. Although other major producers, Mexico and Brazil, increased output, world production in 1972 was still three per cent short of the 1966-7-0 average, and 1973s output advanced only slightly to 1.37 billion pounds. The other basic twine material is hene-queand in 1973 about 353 million pounds were processed. Sisal and henequen constitute the raw materials for almost all the natural fiber twine used in the United States. But sisal also has been promoted worldwide for wall and floor coverings. n, and increasing amounts of Mexican henequen have been processed into padding. The tight supplies in the face of growing . demand have depressed our twine imports. Beaver Numbers On Increase The 15th annual tally of beaver colony trend counts conducted last fall shows a possible upward trend in beaver numbers in Idaho as a whole. Over the 78 trend routes which covered 444.5 stream miles in 28 counties of the state, the count was up 11 per cent over the 1972 total. 521-85- 02 Service COMPLETE LINE TIMPTE PRODUCTS - Parts - ot Not quite. It's more than that. In the good old days, irrigation was done by hand, by toot, by animal, or b accident. Today, electric power mans the pumps. That means that more land than ever before can be used lor 67,(XX) acres in Utah Power Light raising crops-so- me there are Company's service area. And it's needed-becau- se more people than ever before. It's not just the farmers who are more new jobs in the loud reap the benefits-the- re industry and a general boost to the area economy. the amount of electricity used lor irrigation in our area has more than doubled, reac hing a whopping MX), (XX) kilowatts. Farmers are bringing an average ot oxer 2V(KX) acres of new land under irrigation each ear. It's our responsibility to be readv with enough new power to do the job. Not onl for the sake of the farmers, but for every one who directly and indirectly depends on the farmers. That means building new power plants and transmission lines. And it means spending a lot of monev. Not onl for the plants themselves, but for keeping them as environmentally sale and as proven technology allows. as pollution-fre- e For food production, more electric power is a necessity Since i Low Boys LONC TERM LEASING AVAILABLE 14, -- See our Stock, Available for Immediate Delivery Service Department Open 1 6 Hours a Day BOB TALBOT TED BEAKEY V.P. - Gen. Mgr. Sales K. VANLEEUEt Service July. not a luxury ELECTRICITY TOdCNCOMWf PRESTON, IDAHO 801-258-22- 77 . Utah power & light company PHJ1CD, 208-852-20- 00 - 9 They are part of a worldwide chain of Del Monte 542 SOUTH 2165 WEST Soles CITIZEN but also in terms of SEnSl OF UTAH, INC - IDAHO This is true not only from a crop production standpoint THE package. Carrots are shipped from California for the early pea and carrot canned product. Ralph Holt, Superintendent of the Smithfield plant, said that pea production es not-so-h- in making haylage, cubing, mid-Augu- st The two vegetable processing plants are a strong economic factor in Cache Valley Utah and Idaho. 1974 Hay Farmers in Bind Over Baling Twine other processing plants; Smithfield, Utah, and Burley. The Smithfield plant produces primarily peas, corn and carrots. Part of this is in a package. The Burley operation processes peas, corn and lima beans. The three plants make up the processing plants of the Mountain States Division of Del Monte Corporation.. Franklin's bean season starts early in July and runs until mid to late September," Farrell said. Sauerkraut curing starts in and canning about Oct. 1. All the cabbage that is processed in the Franklin plant is grown in Franklin County. The beans are spread out over a side area extending into central and APRIL 25, - Sprinkler Irrigation Systems - KEY TO A BETTER ENVIRONMENT |