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Show 'Support Prices For Canning Crops Announced by War Food Unit creased $7.50 per ton. For "Pride" variety, the price on each of the above grades is increased $5.00 per ton. The prices include value of services rendered to the grower by the canner. The cost of seed to the grower is to be $5.50 per bushel and the costs to grower for dusting is to be $4 per acre per application. TOMATOES: field run $24; No. 1, $28; No. 2, $18; SWEET CORN: $17 with culls out. CARROTS, $20. Prices to growers in Utah for snap beans, sweet corn, green peas, tomatoes, carrots and lima beans grown in 1944 for processing process-ing will be supported by the War j Food administration through price supporting contracts by canners who are certified by the State AAA committee as agreeing to contract with producers for at least the specified support levels for the raw product and by the acceptance of all offers for such canners to sell specified products to the administration, adminis-tration, Orville L. Lee, ehairman of the Utah State AAA committee commit-tee announced today. The growers who contract with a certified canner will have as-1 surance of receiving the support prices. No provision is made for obtaining the support price in any other way and no obligation is made to support prices for un-contracted un-contracted products at any level even though processors will be j encouraged to use all vegetables grown, insofar as possible, Mr. Lee explained. The objective of the program is to obtain desired quantities of canned and frozen vegetables, of the kinds covered by the program, for military, civilians, and lend-lease lend-lease purposes and to obtain that production in an orderly manner without haphazard growing and processing and to conduct a planned program in which pro. duction and processing are tied together by contracts so as to eliminate possibility of waste of vegetables grown, Mr. Lee pointed point-ed out. In order to be eligible for certification cer-tification a processor must offer written contracts to producers before be-fore the time of planting or as quickly thereafter as possible but in no event later than May 5, 1944. Application for certification shall not be accepted if mailed or delivered to the county or state AAA committee by a canner later than May 15, 1944, Mr. Lee said. The following schedule of prices to growers for 1944 is on a field-run field-run basis and refers to vegetables for processing, including both canning, (which are supported under this program) and freezing. These prices are expressed in dollars per ton for vegetables delivered de-livered to the processor's plant or major assembly, whichever has been cusoomarily used by grow- ers and processors: POLE BEANS: sieve sizes 1, 2 and 3, $120; size 4, $100, and sizes '5 and 6, $65; BUSH BEANS: sieze sizes 1, 2, 3 and 4, $125; and sibes 5 and 6, $60; LIMA BEANS $100 for 84 per cent green or comparable degrees of maturity plus or minus $2.00 for each per cent up or down from this base; GREEN PEAS: tenderometer grading, grad-ing, 85 or less, $102; 86 to 88, $99; 92 to 94, $94; 95 to 97, $89; 98 to 100, $85; 101 to 103, $82; 104 to 106, $79; 107 to 109, $76; 110 to 115, $71; and 16 to 120, $66; sieve grading sizes 1, 2 and 3, $136.75, size 4, $83.75, and size 5 and larger, larg-er, $51. The above pi-ices for peas i are on "Perfection" variety. For I "Surprise'' variety, the price on ' each of the above grades is in. |