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Show FARMERS OF SUMMIT TO RAISE MORE PEAS Special to The Tribune. COALVILLE, Oct. 3. The farmers of this valley are booking contracts with the Western Seedgrowers' association, whose headquarters are at Salt Lake, for the growing of seed peas In 1920. Something Some-thing like 500 acres already have been booked, and as much more will be obtained. ob-tained. The price offered is 5 cents a pound, and the association furnishes the growers grow-ers with their seed, to be paid for out of the crops at harvest time, pound for pound. The prospective yields are not less than thirty bushels and as high as eighty-five eighty-five bushels, as some expect. On the acreage already booked the farmers are sanguine that they will add to the community com-munity wealth of Summit county next year not less than $75,000, and probably $100,000. Nephi Sargent of Hoytsvllle raised forty-three bushels of seed peas to the acre this year, a revenue of .$141.90 per acre. E. T. Woolley of Salt Lake and 'William 'Wil-liam Fuller of Coalville have canvassed the farmers of Summit county and are meeting with success. They are certain that they have Introduced into Summit county a new line of agricultural activity activ-ity of great importance and of profit to the growers. |