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Show DIXIE SHIPS 58 CAfi-LDADSPEACHES.YEAR CAfi-LDADSPEACHES.YEAR Cedar City, August 15. Car load shipment of fruit from Washington county which began with the early Heath clingstone peaches in late June, will be finished this week. Fifty-eight cars of peaches will be total for 1925, about 20 cars of which were miscellaneaus varieties. 3S cars of Elbertas and Hale champions cham-pions are the bulk of the car lot crop which is now practically harvested. har-vested. Rail shipments of peaches from Cedar City show as follows, 1923, 12 cars, 1924, 16 cars; 1925, 5S cars. Increase of 4 6 cars over 1923, or more than S00 per cent. While late frosts in 192 3 and 1924 reduced the yields, substantial increase in profitable profit-able results this year, are attributed to standard highways completed in 1925. Splendid highways have put Dixie products 12 hours closer to refrigerator refriger-ator car service. Fruit may be loaded load-ed into "freezers" within 4 hours, which is the average of any district. Berries, bush fruits and melons have been moving regularly by express. ex-press. Figs and pomegranate trees were badly hurt by the December freezes. The trees will fully recover, but the yield this year will be small. Plums, grapes, apples, almonds and walnuts will move in smaller lots during August and September and the crops will be normal and will probably move by express. Dixie vegetables and fruit season embraces May to September inclusive. inclu-sive. The tonnage shipped in less car lots and hauled away by hucksters huck-sters and by merchants from adjoining adjoin-ing districts, exceeds in volume that hauled to the railroad, and shipped by freight. Deseret News. |