Show I FARMERS ENJOYED GOOD YEAR YEA Oct 31 The Green I rivel Products company is making final settlement with its members fox for cantaloupes shipped Alter After all ex- ex expenses ex expenses of packing and shipping have been met approximately 10 is 15 be- be beIng beIng Ing placed to the credit of the growers The acreage was about so that thenet the thenet net returns after all packing shed ex- ex expenses hae ha been deducted lS is per acre Analysis of returns shows that an net price of one dollar per Jumbo crate as aas realized Only about two thirds of a normal yield was had owing to aphis infest a- a aI ahon hon tion and abnormally cool eather m in mI I September mid which retarded the I ripening followed by a severe freeze on the which put an end to all allI I further picking With favorable weather i er for to t more w weeks eks probably 40 I per cent more melons would have been shIpped PrIces receIved during the early part of the season were qUIte good but the prices receded somewhat when the shipments ere acre iest On the whole the growers did very well veIl and the cash received will help to balance the heavy losses that farm farm- farmers farmers I ers generally hwe incurred during the previous years of depression melons are well receIved I the eastern markets owing to their thelT Ion on I superior quality and good pack and andI I outsold competitive melons from Rockyford and the Grand Junction district by a substantial margin One hundred fifty three car loads of cantaloupes were shipped from Green Green- lIver ilver the season on which an freight and icing bill of ovel average was paId or a total of over One grower has suggested that inas- inas inasmuch much as the railway paid over half of the collected taxes in Emery county last year and the freight ht bill of the farmers is an approximation approximation tion of the tax bill of the railway the cantaloupe grovers pay the Emery county taxes At any rate they help CommissIons charged by the selling agencies in New York CIty amounted to I 7 per cent of the gross sal salts s or in I execs of 10 for servIces E rendered There 1 in about aDOU acom lve live weeks time u ULL aDOU u the t he com coin little rivalry among I quite a mission men for the business although that the has been no suggestion there ht be reduced so that the might ml would get the benefit grower company The Products is a non profit assocIation of with E Thurman as glowers president and B J secretary contemplate Incorporating under They market market- marketing marketing the Utah law s a cooperative associatIon in order to secure the financial ing help of the Federal Bank for of Oakland California Cooperatives Co opera rates for which loans money at low m operations and facilities While in Salt Lake City recently Secretary Silliman met with Manager WInder of the Utah Farm Fann Production sho ho explained the details of theIr loan system and stated that with ample credit as a was consistent as to extended would be good growers at low rates for production or of cantaloupeS |