Show farmers offered pea growing contracts coast company wants at least two dro hundred acres in county will furnish seed and pick the crop M W pratt ot of the san diego fruit produce co is in the county coun this week eek off ring farmers LOII tracts to grow erow peas tor for his company lie says they must have contracts for or or acres before they can call justify tile the expense of equipping packing sheds to handle them and he believes farmers are going to sign up or that amount ile he was in parowan carowan today and ana reports that already thirty or forty acres have been pledged in this locality with prospects tor for a good ac deage lit in the cedar valley ills HIS company advances the seed and does the picking and marketing paying the farmer farmer a cent a pound tor for peas in fit the pod but charging him with the cost of the seed he will contract tor for its as little as two acres ot of peas on oil a farm but prefers larger on oil account of 0 the cost ot of moving pickers from one field to another and other overhead costs it Is not difficult he pays tor for far metis to net 30 to 35 an n acre under his contract and it is possible to get twice thai tha t much lift Is anxious to get gel contracts here to furnoh peas for or the september and markets ilia his company Is operating on a big seal scale in idaho he says but frost drives them out ot of there at the end ot of august and ariey are unable to supply a strong september and october maibet they had more than 00 acres under tinder contract lit in the I 1 milford valley tills this year and they picked peas as late as aa october 16 which ot of course Is unusual even tor for this climate from milford ills his company shipped out 22 2 cars ot of peas this season and they expect decidedly heavier production pro ducton next year since they went through the pioneering stages of the industry there this his ear and learned much about how to handle them the which varieties yield best etc tile the peas would be planed under the contracts to come into bearing from the first of august on oil and the company retains the right to go into the field with its pickers as often as it wishes usually about every seven beven to nine lays days As they are arc picked they are arc placed lit in hamp ers holding about thirty five ibs ind and these are iced and hampers to the refrigerator car and sent to easten markets where they trina brine from to a pound the company s profits being dependent on their bringing not less lesa than or lac Pi ching deniz refrigeration find and other overhead costs are extremely high which makes the spread between price to pro ducor and consumer necessarily large the farm armer under the contract plants the crop using freed ed furnished by the company cultivates and irrigates jre it and dusts it il with sulphur two or three times during the season to prevent mold allon tile the fill chur being by tile the company lie ile Is charged ac a pound tor for seed which runs the cost to around per acre anil and that la Is deducted from hs his payments at the time limo ot 0 picking mr lur was waa a by mallard cluard halterman who la Is introducing him to farmers tar mers ile he expects to call a meeting of those inte interested reste d at an early date but know just when PT |