The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1916-03-16
Utah Bean Industry LikeIy: -
~ Agitation Is Started Among Farmers
Canneries Take Steps to Induce Farmers to
Plant Crop. Supply in United States AL
most Exhausted in Filling War Orders Also
Held Another Factor in Favor Of Promotion.

Agitation to induce the farmers In
Utah and especially those of the Salt
Lake valley to start a bean growing
that the crop produced
here might be a step toward fore
stalling bean famine in the United
States held highly probable as a re.
suit OF the drain on the supply oc.
casioned by filling large export or
ders from European nations has been
started by officials Of the canning In.
dustries, according to Herbert L.
Harrington, secretary of the Utah
Canning Company. {
Mr.. Harrington said recently that
while the canning companies had not
laid plans for negotiations with the
farmers for entering into contracts
with them for the growing of beans
for canning purposes in the coming
spring and summer, that officials had
talked the matter over with them and
in the discussions had pointed out
the fact that the soil Of Utah and es-
pecially that Of the Salt Lake val
ley, was especially adaptable to the
production Of beans as an addition to
other crops. That it would be prof
table industry, Mr.. Harrington said
is evidenced in the fact that there
Is always a market for the canned
product and the increasing demand
occasioned by the enormous con-
sumption since the outbreak of the
war in Europe would make it more
profitable.
v. A. c. Takes Lead
Mr.. Harrington stated that he had
received a request from j. Edward
Taylor, secretary OF the Utah Horti
cultural Society to prepare an arti
Gle on the bean growing and canninl
industry, covering the subject in de
tail. for circulation among the farm
ers. that he had not found the time
to perform the task from available
statistics, but had signified his will
ingness to comply. He asserted tina
the Utah Agricultural College at 10
| gan had taken the lead in the stat
in the matter OF promoting interes
in theo bean industry and that by eS
perimeiits at the College had demon
strated that Utah soil was especial
ly adaptable to the growth of bean
that would be suitable for cannin
and cooking purposes.
Mr.. Harrington stated further tina
the Utah canneries supplied the lC
cal demands for canned beans thr'
beans shipped here from Michigan
The kind of beans raised in the Wo
VERNE state, he pointed out, are prat
tically the same as those raised b
California, but OF little better Kline
This, together with the fact that tn
freight rates from Michigan, ur
slightly lower than those from Cal
fornia make the Michigan beans NOR
desirable for canning purposes b
the Utah cannerleS.
Mr.. Herrington's conclusions n
garding the possibility of the esta'
lishment of bean growing and col
ming industry in Utah are similar I
those contained in an article nrepa
ed by w. H. Gin, commissioner
agriculture for the Denver & RI
Grande Railroad Company and tn
Rio Grande Southern Railroad Con
, pany. The article deals particular
with the situation in the wester
part OF the United States and Is
follows:
The writer has received reliabl
information that the demand fc
beans for export during the past eigI
teen months has absorbed all bear
r obtainable from one end OF this cou
try to the other. Even the normal d
, mand for beans for the next twel'
months can not be supplied. and til
added call, occasioned by the Euro
. can war, will tend to make the d
mand even stronger.
This Is the year when farmt
with several acres In good filth wi
do well to plant this crop. Bear
, contain as much protein as meat an
| because OF their low cost, palatabili'
and high food value, they have n
come an important article of dai
diet for the soldier at the front
. the prisoner In confinement, amor
: all nations and It Is impossible
overestimate their present expo