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Show NEW PACKING PLANT BOON TOFARMERS Machinery Installed at Utah Packing Corporation's Plant at Sp. Fork Half a million tomato plants, three hundred aores of peas, fifty-acres fifty-acres of sweet corn, a slightly smaller acreage of beans and pickling pickl-ing plants, will make up the 1925 season's truck farming production for the Utah Packing Corporation's newest plant at Spanish Fork, according ac-cording to authoritative reports. With all of the latest type of .machinery, which is now being installed in-stalled in motion In the county's : largest factory, together with a : splendid acreage contracted by the : corporation, truck farming in the : vicinity of Spanish Fork is given ' greater impetus than ever before. Approximately 250,000 tomato plants have already urrived from ; Pomona, Cal., and are being cared for by the farmers of Spanish Fork, ; Salem and Payson and during the ' present week another quarter of a million plants are expected to arrive, according to reports from the dis-f dis-f trict. Agricultural experts familiar with y the importance of diversified farm- ing encouraged by the ready market I offered by the canning factory, are elated over the outlook for the suc- cess of this type of farming during the mining season. They point to the importance of crop rotation, seasonable distribution of labor and the fact that the farmer receives ? better! and quicked returns. It is further stated that soil con- ditions In Utah county are especially adapted to the truck farming, and that by this means of production the land is kept free from taxic substances sub-stances which cannot be thrown off by a lack of crop rotation, t bias been demonstrated that the farms of this county which ten years ago produced enormous tonnage of sugar beets are very unproductive now. The plant foods in this instance has become exhausted. Reports from Spanish Fork are to the effect that a number of experiments experi-ments will be made at the new factory fac-tory during the coming season. The canning of beans following a shelling shell-ing system similar to that used on peas will be one of the new systems introduced. If this proves successful success-ful it will add greatly to bean production pro-duction in the years to come, in the opinion of canning experts. The new factory will be ready with its splendid equipment in time to handle this season's crops, it is said. |