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Show - Prize Cauliflower ! Attracts Attention I A six-pound bend of cauliflower, nil exhibition at the Gunnison Valley bank, is attracting unusual attention' and hundieds have seen the prize. It has been established that the valley can produce prolific crops of the ap- 1 petizing vegetable, averaging from three to four pounds, but the select' sample has unusual attractiveness ; due to its perfectness, being com-: ! pact and perfectly bleached. Th" j prize head was raise, I by Tom Kuwa-hara Kuwa-hara on the June Metcalf acres in the Clarion district. Kuwahara has twelve acres planted to cauliflower and it is one of the finest in the Japanese Jap-anese colony. The patch is in per- feet condition and it is estimated, that nearly 000 crates to the acre ! will be harvested. 1 Not alone is the Kuwahara acres looking fine but all the patches, ag- 1 grcgating more than 150 acres, are in splendid shape and promise a yield better than last season. ' Harvesting of the crop is being maintained at a good gait, the packing pack-ing house an, in the fields being a' veritable beehive of workers. The shipments were increased this week to five full craloads. Each week will see an increase in shipments until about the middle of September when the peak of harvesting will be reach-ed. reach-ed. , |