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Show Yields Ut hour Utah Crops Are Above Average Utah vegetable farmers got more out' of their land in 1951 than did growers in most other states. The Beehive State's yield per acre of sweet corn, tomatoes, snap beans and green peas was higher than the national average. One result was that the abundant her-yests her-yests of these four crops was so far beyond the needs of Utah's consumers that the canning and frozen food industry which packed them for shipment to distant markets mar-kets employed during the peak sea son about 7,000 workers,' says .the American Can Company, manufacturer manufac-turer of containers. Utah was far and way the national na-tional champion in per-acre yield of sweet corn. .Its 4.6 tons of corn per acre in 1951 compared with runner-up Washington's 4.1 tons per acre and the national average of 2.83 tons. From last year's plantings of tomatoes Utah averaged 13.1 tons per acre - - second only to California's Calif-ornia's 15.8 tons and the national average of 10.08 tons. For snap beans, Utah's average during 1951 was 3.5 tons per acre compared with the national average of 2.18 tons. Last year Utah averaged 3 010 pounds o shelled peas per acre planted while the national average was 2,284 pounds. |