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Show States Vegetables For Canning Would Fill Mammoth Tin If some 20th Century Paul Bun-yan Bun-yan could mold a tin can big enough to hold all the vegetables grown for processing in Utah last year, the giant container would ' cover a baseball diamond and tower tow-er 421 feet high. American Can Company econ omists report. that the mammoth can 'would contain an estimated 107,000 tons of tomatoes, sweet corn, peas and other vegetables the 1952 canning harvest of Utah's rich, irrigated valleys. Utah's king of vegetable crops, tomatoes, with a production of 75,900 tons for processing, would dominate the space in the jumbo size can. Over 90 per cent of the state's entire crops of peas and snap beans would be poured into the giant tin, plus many tons of sweet corn, lima beans, beets, carrots, car-rots, cabbage and pumpkin. Beehive State growers produced 23,400 tons of sweet com, , 7,120 tons of reas and 2,400 tons of beans for processing last year, the canmaking firm reported. |