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Show M ,.f i, i.Mg3BgT33aIJUtUI-JCITECrgAIJ tJJgI iLliTS RETARD RfPEHHG OF THE TOMATOES If tho present cool evenings keep up, there is danger of Weber county's bumper tomato pack receiving a setback. set-back. Fears of frost cutting the crop down have been heard in' many quarters. quar-ters. H. L. Herringlon, president of the Utah Canning company, said that the cool evenings will probably set the season back about ten days with the canneries. Tho tomatoes are ripening slowly. Up to about a week ago, with the fine weather condition?, it was thought the imiato crcp w-uhl be harvested at l.'nst ten to fo-irteen days earlier than In previous ou. Tho sudden change In the temperature tempera-ture evenings has suddenly brought about a reversal. Now the tomatoes arc ripening slowly, and if no early frosts come it nmy be at least ten days longer before the fanners will find the pre duct ripe vrjugh to pick i:i large quantities. Mr. Henington said the output of tomatoes for the state at the first estimate es-timate was about a million cases. Of this amount the government had asked for about one-third, or 335,000 cases as the state's quota to moot the requirements re-quirements of tho army and navy. Tho canners of tho state arc hopeful that they will be able-'to hit the high spots in the pack and meet all the requirements. |