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Show Utah Farmers In Top Third Of States For Canning Crops Utah farmers in 1952 sold over three and one-half million dollars worth of vegetables to processors, pro-cessors, a figure which pushed the value of the Beehive State's canning can-ning crop into the top third among all states. Tomatoes were far and away Utah's biggest 1952 vegetable canning can-ning crop, bringing growers $1,-973, $1,-973, 00Q reported Dr. H. E. Michl, economist for American Can Company. Com-pany. Other major crops last year were green peas, for which processors pro-cessors paid S6U.000; sweet corn, which brought $608,000 and snap beans, with a value of $261,000. The economist for the company which developed mass production can-making and canning machinery machin-ery that helped put canned foods in virtually every American home said that the increasing diversion of vegetables away from the fresh market to processing plants has helped make food canning an important im-portant industry in Utah. "For example," Dr. Michl explained, ex-plained, "the value of last year's sweet corn crop for canning was 141 per cent greater than the average aver-age for the previous 10 years. Similarly, the can-making firm's economist said, the value of snap beans and tomatoes sold to pro-cesor pro-cesor were up 47 per cent and 31 per cent respectively over the 10-year 10-year average, while the volume of beans sold for fresh consumption consump-tion was negligible and sale of tomatoes to the fresh market showed a drop of 42 per cent below be-low the 10-year average. |