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Show UTAH BERRIES YIELD $41,000 Utah truck farmers received approximately ap-proximately $41,000 from processors proces-sors for their 1952 harvest of 240,-000 240,-000 pounds of strawberries. The Beehive state with 700 acres of land devoted "to the popular pop-ular berry, ranked 13th in the nation na-tion as a producer of strawberries for processing last year, according to Dr. Glenn Cunningham, economist econ-omist for American Can company. The average yield per acre was 2,300 pounds a 16.7 per cent increase in-crease over the average for the 1941-50 decade, he said. The economist for the company which developed the first leak-proof leak-proof container for frozen berries said that of the state's total strawberry straw-berry yield in 1952 freezers utilized util-ized more than 155,"000 pounds, an increase of 35 times over their requirements re-quirements of only six years earlier. In 1946, only 4,470 pounds of frozen strawberries were packed, he said. |