Show annery y Seeking Large Acre crease Most J Profitable Crop Vi With h the tho avowed wowed purpose I oft off j pe- pe e- e curing seven seyen h hundred fi fifty ty acres planed planted to peas for for the local plant and as many manlY for the Ephraim unit of the Rockey Rocke r 1 Mt It Packing corporation corpor- corpor corp corpor corporation r- r lUon tl the e management are arc making it clear that they need Volume it they operate these plants at a profit To expect them to continue at a loss is to expect the sible In anticipation of the acreage ac ac- they have haye secured secured- needed equipment and se seed d peas have been purchased cd thor they have ave ey every rs dence dense in the farmers and feel that they can look to the large producer producers 35 as s well fecal as the small farmer to make make the tho seven hundred fifty acreage possible Last year rear the plants operated at ata a loss It It costs nearly as much to op operate rate for a acre capacity I as it does for three throe or four times that much All the machinery must be overhauled just the same It requires the tho same number of people to ope operate ate and whether I they are on steady or only part time each day makes males but little difference in the operating costs There is only one solution and arA that thatis is to have volume en enough ugh to make I 1 I a profitable run or else close tho the j plant A no To close the plant is unthinkable In a community where t he t-he o opportunity or- or tunny to labor labor tor for the average boy bOj and girl irl out o of t high school unless ho he is the son of pf a large farmer isso Is Isso Isso so limited V We must not shut off this one field of wholesome labor that at once affords lucrative employment employment em om- plo ment for these young people and l keeps th thorn m from the tho dangers of Idleness There is another r class also we wo should remember and that thatIs Is ig our widowed mothers who need financial aid Gladly do they look to the cannery for a job I There Is Is another class while named last Is not least that is the farmer Carmer himself Tho The pea crop Js is tb the best crop he can Jaise raise Its earl early maturity gives gi him more water wa wa- I ter for other and later crops and and being a crop It enriches his soil in an au element clement that Is much Continued on page 4 1 f Seeking Acre I Increase I II I Continued from page one ona I Ij t j needed Although 28 was a an off I year tho the acreage Manti ManU pea farmer i received per acre for his his f 1 crop and three tons of ensilage I t One farmer received as high as per acre for his pea pa crop 1 and in addition thereto five ne andone and andone j one half haIt tons of ensilage Where can you better that or even er ec ual ef ual lit it individual success depends on Individual preparation and care of individual plots I f Let us give gl the Cannery that seven hundred fifty acres Stretch a point if necessary S but that is Is' not not necessary but hut every everyone one must hold us his end There are aco four thousand acres of farm land In the Manti ManU fields two acres out of each iten ten will do the trick and have some Bome to to spare Manti ManU let us do our our stuff t Field man A. A H H. H Henrie is isnow I Inow now making the rounds signing up UI the contracts when he lie calls caUs on you see to It that he goes away j with the full acreage tucked in his contract book r |