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Show Prepare Now To Plant Peas The Rocky Mountain Packing Corporation Cor-poration wishes to increase the output at the Mantt Plant. They will add three new viners to the present equip-I equip-I menf, one north of town, one at SI.erl 1 lug, and one at the factory. They '.propose having r,00 acres of perfection ;Peas planted, nnd 200 acres of Surpiise. U'eas, a variety maturing about two I weeks before the Perfection. As the Surprise pease would be out of the way by the time the later ones come ort, the ten viners would be able to tnke 'care of the crop in good shape without! much delay in unloading, which is the I thing farmers have objected to more than anything in the past. I The year 1023 was an off year of 1 pens, on account of the cold, backward I spring. In spite of this fact, some veiy good yields have been made, the I factory farm at the plant, growing $130.00 per acre, and several farmers I receiving in the neighborhood of $100. i.ai acre. The lowest grosc amount is Slfi.00 per acre. The average for the farmers delivcrying peas to the viner at the plant and to Manti West Viner was SG3.00 per acre. At Mayfield they did considerably better. One party gorssed $100 an acre, and another $134-50. $134-50. All the accounts show the general average at Mayfield to be much higher than at Manti. These figures did not take into account ac-count the advantage of peas as a rotation ro-tation crop. Very heavy yields of grain have been reported from land on which peas were grown during previous years. There are hundreds of acres of land in the fields, adjoining Manti, that arc as good for the growing or peas as the farm that brought $130, per acre, owned by the Rocky Mountain Packing Corporation. Cor-poration. The averge farmer would qo well to plant a small acreage of peas as a general practice.. Some larger pro ducers probably should cut their acreage acre-age somewhat and give more attention atten-tion to the smaller acreage. Peas silage sil-age is excellent to supplement alfalfa hay and grain for most all livestock. Those who intend planting peas next spring would do well to give their land a light coat of manure this fall and plow it before freezing weather sets in. |