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Show peppers, pimentos, sweet potatoes and even tobacco, of the unusual crops are included in the exhibit which was awarded a special grand prize for the best single exhibit at the Festival. Going down the list of products on exhibit by Mr. Francom, there are water melons averaging 45 pounds each, pumpkins, peanuts, strawberries, raspberries, pie plant, sweet potatoes, chili peppers, pimen-toes, pimen-toes, garden huckleberries, mammoth mam-moth sage, carrots, squash, banana cantaloupes, summer squash, egg plant, cucumbers both large and small, white pickling onions, turnips, tur-nips, radishes, lettuce, dill, sweet corn, four varieties of potatoes,, cauliflower, red cabbage, sugar beets that have averaged 20 tons per acre for 20 years, apples, tomatoes, to-matoes, pears, eight varieties ot squash, and 10 varieties of cantaloupes. canta-loupes. More than just growing these products on a 20-acre tract the marketing has to be done. But that is solving itself according to Mr. Francom. Not a handful of all these products are sold in outside markets, but the people come right to the farm and help themselves to what they want. "We aim to treat them right when they come and the next time they bring their friends and neighbors," Mr. Francom said. "We encourage them to bring their lunch along and then we give them extras for their lunch, give them flowers and above all, let them go right out into the fields and get just what they want and then we only charge them a moderate price for what they get." Mr. Francom says his customers come from ns far north as Salt Lake for vegetables and especially for pickling vegetables, as they know he has anything that can be put into pickles that grows in this part of the country. Thirty acres are planned plan-ned for next season as the 20 acres of garden stuff grown this season has not supplied the demand. "Help yourself and eat all you want," is the slogan," Mr. Francom says. . Francom Is "Chief Gardener If it can bo grown in Utah county, coun-ty, it was on exhibit at the Harvest Har-vest Festival by J. H. Francom, "Gardner at lare" of the Ui ten base Truck farm near Paysnn. Peanuts, |