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Show GROWERS ARGUE TOMATO PRICE Canners and Growers To Meet At Ogden, Tuesday To Settle Prices. In a meeting at the Lincoln high , school seminary building' Saturday evening, Utah county tomato grow-' ers unanimously agreed to file a protest with the Utah state canners that the prices for the 1932 tomato crop, set last week, are too low. Final judgment was reserved, however, how-ever, until after the meeting in Ogden Tuesday. The prices set by the panners last week were $10 for first grade and $4.50 for second grade tomatoes, graded under the government system sys-tem inaugurated last year. According Accord-ing to advice from the Utah county farm bureau, this price is lower than the tomatoes can be grown for, as the tomatoes must be graded grad-ed much more carefdlly than formerly. for-merly. - -Holdaway In Charge Walter Holdaway, canning crop field man for the county farm bureau, bu-reau, took chargt; of the meeting and read the report of the decision in Ogden. He will attend the meeting meet-ing Tuesday and carry the findings of the Utah county farmers to the canners at that time. Further negotiations between the growers and the canners will result in a slightly higher price for the crop, it is felt by farm bureau officials. of-ficials. H. A. Wright, vice president of the canning crops commission of the county farm bureau, was present pres-ent at the meeting, Over 150 farmers farm-ers attended. |