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Show NEAR END OF TOMATO SEASON Next week will be the last of tho canning season, so far as tomatoes are concerned and tho total pack is expected to fall about twenty-five percent per-cent short of the nonnnl. The short-ago short-ago Is due to agcneral lack of water In speaking of the 'canning season in Utah, H. L. Herrlngton, vice president presi-dent of tho TJuih Canning company and secretary and treasurer of the Utah Canning association, stated this afternoon that while Utah would not can moro thnn seventy-five per cent of the normal pack, the farmers and packors would fare better in this state than in any other part of the country. This has been an off year with tomatoes and mnny of the states In which the fruit is grown show less than fifty per cent of their average yield. This will naturally have a tendency to boost tho prices of the canned product to the consumers. "Utah has not fared badly with tomatoes this year, although tho yield will be short of the normal," 'said Mr. Herrlngton. "A combination of things have been working against tho crop this season but the chief cause has been a shortage in the wator supply sup-ply throughout the state. In many of the higher districts there has not been enough wotor to keep the ground properly Irrigated and as a result the yield has been greatly reduced. re-duced. "Tho farmers in the Weber county district havo fared bettor than In some of tho other districts. The Utah Canning company is receiving about SO tons of tomatoes every day. This makes about 50,000 cans of tho finished fin-ished product, or a run of nearly S5 cans per minute during the working hours. We are shlpnlng three carloads car-loads of canned tomatoes every day. Our pack will amount to about 75,-000 75,-000 cases for our two factories or about 40,000 cases for the factory In this city. Our Brlgham factory will not put up as many cases as our local ono. In addition to thjs pack of tomatoes, we will put out about 12,000 cases, of catsup, m "Tho average prlco of tomatoes Is $1.60 or $1.65 per case. Tho shortage of the present season, however, may shoot tho price up to the $2 mark before be-fore the next crop of tomatoes Is ripe. It is likely that the rise In prices will not be noticed at once, but It will affect the general market wltn-In wltn-In a very short time," Isaac N. Pierce, president of the Utah Canning company, says that the farmers havo not lost any money by the shortage In the tomato yield. The farmers have received $10 per ton for their product, and in some Instances Instan-ces the yield has been as high as IS tons to the acre, but, in some districts dis-tricts where the water supply has been limited, not more than three tons have been raised to the acre. In this district the average yield has been 10 tons to the acre. It is expected that all of the canneries can-neries will bo through with tomato canning by October 20. Most of the factories began the canning of tomatoes toma-toes about September 10. There are a number who estimate the output of the Ogden district at nearly a half million cases, but canneries can-neries say that estimate Is too high. |
