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Show than he or she wants for home consumption. These gardeuers will be able to dispose of their surplus at the ruling market price, which from present indications will be higher than last year. The mayor announced that the new market would open about May 15 and that it would remain open six days a week until the close or the crop season. sea-son. Details of the plan whereby the war gardener may ofter his or her surplus sur-plus at the best markot price will be worked out within the next few days. CITY III WILL RELIEVEGARDENERS Municipal Mart Will Be Open in Regent Street About May 15. That not a pound of foodstuff raised in the war gardens of Salt Lake need go to waste, but can find a ready market mar-ket at good prices, Afavor W. Mont Kerry announced yesterday. The now municipal market, which will he opened at 154 Regent street, formerly Commercial Commer-cial street, about May 15, will offer a means whereby the war gardeners may dispose of any surplus stock they may have. The mayor declared that an investigation investi-gation instigated by him had dovelopod tho fact that many of the truck gardeners gard-eners of Davis county, tho principal point from which Salt Lake receives its truck garden suply during the spring, summer and fall, was not planting nearly the acreage they had in the past. The gardeners report that tho scarcity of labor, and tne high price which they have to pay for what they can secure, has compelled them to forsake for-sake truck gardening and in its piace to plant smjar beets or wheat. It is said that many of the largest truck farms of Davis county, as well as those in the south part of Weber county, coun-ty, many in Salt Lake county and in Utah county, will raise less than one-tenth one-tenth of their truck products this year, owing either to tho scarcity of labor or tho prospects of better prices for other crops which do not require as much time and attention as does the small garden stuff. In discussing the matter yesterday, Mayor Ferry said: Indications are that the produce from the war gardens of Salt Lake this year will be greatly in excess of that raised last year. " It is liltely that many of the war gardeners will have more than they need for their own use. No foodstuff should be allowed to go to waste. There are many residents of the citv who are so situated that they cannot raise a garden, but they must eat. For this reason the new municipal market mar-ket will offer a special advantage to the war gardener who has moro I |