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Show SOUTHERN UTAH PLANTS GREAT TOMATO CROP Approximately 150 acres of early tomatoes are being grown under contract in Nta hin sections where none were produced last year, according ac-cording to Frank Andrews, agricultural agricul-tural statistician for Utah for the United States bureau of agriculture. Mr. Andrews declared that about seventy-five acres are growing in Wishington county, where the season sea-son is several weeks earlier than in the main tomato producing areas of the state. The altitude of the Washington Wash-ington county truck areas is about 2000 feet lower than are the main crop sections, he said. It is expected, according to Mr. Andrews, to market this early crop between June 15 and the end of the month. The completion of a new road from Cedar City, the nearest railroadstali on. into Washington county, within the past year, has made it lunch easier nnd less ex'-pensive ex'-pensive to haul the product froiu that county to the railroad, Mr. Andrews An-drews planted out. He said that another seventy-five acres are under un-der contract near Moal), about thirty-five miles south of the Denver Den-ver & ltio Grande Western railroad in eastenr Utah. Moab, declared Mr. Andrews, b located in a protected valley alont the Colorado river and has a sea son earlier than the main crop to inato producing sections. It is ex peeled that the Moab crop will In ready for shipment about July 1 after the Washington county ktim is out of the way, and bct'fcre th main crop begins to move from cer tral and- northern Utah points. |