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Show Fruit Prospects Best In History The Pleasniil Grove rrult growers nro now Just finishing tho callx spraying spray-ing or tholr rrult trees. Vast quantities quanti-ties or spraying material has been Bold and tho spraying Is more thorough thor-ough than It Iiiih been lu years. Tho crop la heavier than ever before be-fore In history, so Unit local dealers and commission men nro looking for wnrd to tho biggest fruit year that the locality has ovqr had. Prices i on some fruits may possibly ho u little lower, but generally they will range a llttlo higher than last year. Commission men arc now commencing commenc-ing to contract tor raspberries, though not naming any dellnlto price that will bo paid. The first strawberries wero placed on the market Thursday and will soon be plentiful. The strawberry straw-berry crop was about 50 per cent destroyed de-stroyed In tho recent hall belt. |