Hurley

So there's a lot of cash money in the Ozarks for tomatoes, whether you're growing tomatoes or whether you're working in the industry, getting them packed and canned, or in the case of some people, we own the canneries.

So by August of 1931, at Hurley, Missouri, Hurley opens tomato season.

So this is the first run on tomatoes.

First run in county made Saturday.

Canners foresee exceptionally short crop.

The Hurley Cannery, one of the properties of the Roy Nelson Canning Company, old Roy Nelson, Marshfield resident, who owned who was the tomato king and he owned canneries all over the ozarks that's an episode i'm gonna try to do one day okay sorry for the sidebar uh roy nelson canning company of this city meaning hurley opened the canning season the county saturday of last week when several crates tomatoes secured from all over the north in the county were prepared for packing Canners in this county foresee one of the shortest tomato crops the county has ever produced.

Some of them have made trips over the fields of the county during the past week and they declare there are fewer tomatoes on most vines than they have ever seen.

It has been estimated that a vine must bear about 40 tomatoes during the season to produce a normally good crop in the district.