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FIRST CAR ASPARAGUS
ON NEW YORK MARKET.
NEW YORK, March.—The first
car of California asparagus to
in New York this season was receiv
ed March eleventh by John
& Co. The car contained 700 boxes
of the three brands, "Del Monte,"
"Sunkist” and "Royal Red," all of
which showed fine quality. It was
shipped by the California Packing
Corporation and was packed by Har¬
ry !>. Roper. The first lot was sold
at $20 per box of one dozen bunches.
Prices on the rest of the car are not
available at this writing.
This is about ten days or two
weeks earlier than the first carlot ar
rivals of last year and previous ex
presss shipments have also been ear¬
lier in proportion, Express arrivals
have been rather liberal throughout
the past week, although not sufficient
to pull prices down very much. The
quality of all the asparagus arriving
thus far this year has been extra
fine and the first class trade bought
well at prices ranging from $15 to
$40 per dozen bunches. Only one
lot is known to have sold at $40 but
several lots have sold at $36
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TO INCREASE SACREMENTO
COUNTY ASPARAGUS CROP.
SACRAMENTO, Calif.-More than
4,000 acres of asparagus will be
planted this year by the farmers of
the delta district of Sacramento
county, according to estimates by
Horticulture Commissioner Fred
Brostus, who says this planting will
be in addition to the present acreage.
The Eastern demand for fresh Cal¬
ifornia asparagus is one cause for
the increase and Mr. Brotus says the
future annual crop of the county
will average a value of $3,000,000.
Fine canneries in Sacramento county
are now ready to handle the aspara¬
gus pack', and another is being built
to operate next year.
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HOPE SO.
They were showing him the baby,
"Yes, of course!" murmured the
simple fellow, And-er-how old is |
it?”
"Exactly three months tomorrow,
chirped the ecstatic mother.
"Oh—haw—yes- er—the youngest
I suppose? he stammered.—Ex.
WATSON WATER-MELON SEED
I to 5 lbs. $ 1.00
6 to 10 lbs. .90
II to 20 lbs. .85
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Painting Time-Freshen up your premises, put a new coat of paint on your house, keep ®ji 8
in tune with nature. It is worth the money. A well kept lawn, a well painted house i S
speak well for the man and woman living there. #}j
WE CAN FURNISH THE PAINT-LOWE’S
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your porch so you can enjoy it. Make it comfortable and get some of the joys of the early i-i
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THE LEADER-TRIBUNE, FORT VALLEY, GA„ MARCH 25. 1920,
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STORING OF EGGS HAS
BEGUN IN
PORTLAND, Oreg.—Storage
eggs has started in the local
and stocks are going into the
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at a greater value than
before known in the local trade.
While most of the local f. o. b. buy¬
ers were bidding but 36c a dozen
current recipts Portland delivery, to¬
ward the closing of the week, some
were offering ns high as 38c, Those
that name the high price in this ter¬
ritory are the ones that get the sup
plies. Leaders of the egg trade here
generally express the opinion that at
any price that does not reach above
40c a dozen for current receipts, is
safe for storing this seaon. Egg
storers are making extensive prepara¬
tions to put away liberal supplies
during the present season. More egg
cases and fillers have been ordered
for this purpose than during any
previous season.
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ST. LOUIS CO., PLANTING
BIG ARK. PEACH ORCHARD.
HORATIO, Ark.—Along in 1902
or 1903 the Southern Orchard Plant¬
ing Company purchased several hun¬
dred acres of land about half way
between Horatio and DeQueen and
planted in peach trees. This com
pany was composed of Kansas City
men and employees of the Santa Fe
Railroad. Bert Johnson was also ac¬
tively connected with the company
but later withdrew and gave his at¬
tention to the interest in the High¬
land orchards. This orchard reached
its best along in 1906 or 1907 and
while very productive seems to have
not been a paying proposition, but at
that time growers had not learned to
care for orchards as scientifically as
they do now and much of the fruit
was imperfect and diseased, A few
years later it was entirely abandoned.
Last fall the Patterson Orchard Com¬
pany of St. Louis, which had sold its
orchard interests at Highland, Ark.,
purchased about 500 acres of this
abandoned orchard tract. It had
been neglected and most of it was
covered with second-growth timber,
brush and briars. The firm has clear¬
ed off all the brush and timber and
plowed it to a great depth, has re
paired the old tenant houses and
built some new ones, a large barn
centrally located and made a high¬
way out of the old spur that ran out
through the orchard from the Kan¬
sas City Southern tracks. The tract
will be planted to Elberta peaches 1
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weather expect to finish the
in the next ten days or two
The tract is rolling- and well
soil dark gravelly loam with red
subsoil. Corn, cotton or other
will be planted in the extreme
places and the entire acreage
been fenced with four-foot
wire fencing.
I. W. Slaton who was
ent for the old orchard company,
the farm superintendent. He
he has instructions from Mr. Gutter
son not to spare any expense neces
sary for plans and labor to produce
a good orchard and they expect in
four or five years to have the best
producing orchard in the Southwest.
C. E. Patterson is the local represen
tative and general manager ol' the
farm.
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