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Show State's Vegetables Would Fill Mammoth Tin Can If some 20th Century Paul Bun yan could mold a tin can big enough to hold all the vegetables vegeta-bles grown for processing in Utah last year, the giant container contain-er would cover a baseball dia-jmond dia-jmond and tower 421 feet high. I American Can company economists 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 valley. Utah's king of vegetable crops, tomatoes, with a production of 75.900 tons for processing, would dominate the space in the jumbo sized can. Over 90 per cent of the state's entire crops of peas and .snap beans would be poured into I the giant tin. plus many tons of 1 sweet corn, lima beans, carrots j beets, cabbage and pumpkin. Beehive state growers produced 23,400 tons of sweet corn, 7.120 tons of peas and 2.400 tons of beans for processing last year, the can-making firm reported. |