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Show Tomato and Pea Canning A Big Industry Canning of fruits, vegetables and milk has long been a topflight top-flight manufacturing Industry In Utah. Like sugar refining, this business exerts an important economic eco-nomic influence upon the state entirely aside from the employment employ-ment it furnishes. It is one of the biggest customers of agriculture, and its progress directly affects that basic industry. Dollar value of canned products produced by Utah during 1939 is unavailable, but the magnitude of the industry is suggested by these facts: Canners took 58,800 tons of to-motoes to-motoes and 11,600 tons of green peas during the 1939 crop year. The milk plants consumed almost the entire production of the areas in which they are locateo.. The output is marketed throughout through-out the United States. Considerable Consider-able quantities were shipped abroad until the war curtailed this outlet. Production of fruits, vegetables, juices, etc., for 1937 was valued at 7,311,12 in the United States department of commerce census, and total payroll was $1,033,984. For the same year the value of condensed and evaporated milk was $3,601,196. |
