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Show Tomato Crop This Year in Utah Is Record Breaking Acreage In totnatoea In Utah tha current year aggregated S221 acrea, aa compared with 850 acrea In 1121. and the estimated production thla year 10,-287 10,-287 tons, aa compared with 10.455 tone In 1921. The flgurea are given out by M. M. Juatln. atatiatlcian of the bureau of crop estlmatea of the United Unit-ed Htatea department of agriculture. Said Mr. Juatin today: 'The production of lomatoea for the current year for manufacture la estlmatea estl-matea by the department at 1.001,010 tona. or 1S2 per cent more than the 41. ': tmie of laat year. Indiana leada ail states, with an estimated " " i- ... tomatoea for thla pur I'oec. Next cornea California, hum Tl.TS tons. Maryland with 111.510 tone. New Jersey with 81.89S tons. New Tork with M.24& tona, Ohio wlih 6.47 tona, Missouri with 87,1(8 tona. Delaware with 81,712 tona and Utah i with 80.287 tons. Other atatea had I smaller quantities. "It Is estimated that 218.884 acrea produceiT the tomato crop for manTT facture this year, compared with the final estimate off 87.828 acres In 1821. The estimated yield of 48 tons per acre, however. Is a little lower than the 4 9 tons of 1921. ''From the reporte made to the department. de-partment. It la estimated that about 9.3)5,000 caaea of No. 8 cans will be the pack of thla year. The park of 1921 was 8. 050,000 cases." |