Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-01-29 | Page 1 | Utah Canners to Increase Tomato Pack

UTAH CAHNERS TO INCREASE i TOMATO PACK Contracts Will Be Made for Twice Acreage of Last Year Members: of the Utah Canners association asso-ciation will pack twice as many cases of tomatoes this year, as last. It was 'announced Saturday following a meeting meet-ing of the Utah canners at their offices of-fices in the Fred J. Klesel building, with J. G. M. Barnes of Kaysville, I siati ice president, presiding The I'tah tomato pack In 1921 was 125,000 cases. This Is about one-fourth as many cases as I'tah packs In a normal nor-mal yekr The 1922 pack will be about 250,000. or about one-half of the normal nor-mal paok, A committee from the Weber county farm bureau was to have been In attendance, at-tendance, but failed tO appear The announcement of the canners was expected to prove cheering to1 farmers in all parts of the stale rtah canm tm win me. t with representatives repre-sentatives of the American Can company com-pany of Utah February 105 with a . n w to getting prices for the i'2 supply sup-ply of cans. The freight rate situation as It af-f.- ts the industry will bo a topic at ll.i.s I'eliruarv also it wa announced 00