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Show SURVEY SHOWS VEGETABLES ARE PROFITABLE CROP The Moapa and Washington county vegetable growers have a freight and express rate advantage over California for the inter-mountain inter-mountain country and an equal rate to eastern markets. However, the rate to the northwest is favorable fa-vorable to the California growers. The trucking charges from St. George to Cedar City, during 1928 j and 1929, were 30 cents per hun- j dred pounds. This, added to the i freight from Cedar City to Salt! Lake City made a total trans- j porta lion charge of 71 cents per hundred pounds as compared to 50 cents per hundred charges from Moapa to Salt Lake. At the ' present time the vegetables sold on the Salt Luke City market are transported by truck at a con- ' tracted price of $1 per hundred. 1 When vegetables are transported this way, deliveries can be marie after reaching the market without any further charte or handling of the product. The trucking sen-ice has an advantage over tV rail sen-ice in that the trucks can leave St. Gforre in the evening and be in Salt Lake City for the early morning market. Production and Marketing of Vegetables. In order to supplement the farm organization study, detailed cost j 'Crntir.uf.d on paee 2) VEGETABLES ARE PROFITABLE CROP (Continued from page 1) records were escured from growers grow-ers for radishes, carrots, onions and beets, in the Moapa valley. Data on other factors, as they relate re-late to the production and marketing mar-keting of vegetables in the two districts, were secured from the growers and other parties at the time the survey was made. Bunched Vegetables, Acreage and Returns. Hie acreage and per acre returns re-turns from bunched vegetable production pro-duction in Washington county were reported in the farm organization analysis. These data showed that, although the acreage per grower was small, the per acre returns were considerable higher than those received from other crops. The survey in the Moapa valley covering bunched vegetable production pro-duction showed that the average per acre production was 145 crates of 10 dozen bunches giving a per acre return of $258.83 or $1.79 per crate. Cost of Production of Benched Vegetables The total per acre cost of producing pro-ducing bunched vegetables, as reported re-ported by the Moapa growers, was $156.80, or $1.08 per crate. The total fixed charges, or the cost of production not dependent on yields, was $71.21 per acre, or $.50 npr rrate. The total charges for labor and materials for harvesting or the costs which vary with yields, were $85.59 per acre, or $.58 per crate. This leaves a net return of $102.03 per acre or $0.71 per crate. |