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Show Total Shipments j Ninety Carloads j i For the next two weeks, the cauliflower cauli-flower fields west of 'Gunnison will be the busiest place in the valley and during this time harvesting of the eiop will reach the highest peak or the harvesting season, said T K. Smith, representing Smith & Hancock, Han-cock, wholesale produce dealers, who have contracted the entire crop grown in the Japanese colony, arJ other points in the cauliflower district. dis-trict. Mr. Smith stated that it m planned to ship at least five curs per day for the coming two weeks, aii't following, tho shipments would he. reduced somewhat. Up to last ni?ht a total of 00 carloads of cauliflower and three cars of cabbage had g'n:; forth from the I). & R. G. sta'ion at Gunnison. Shipments from the fields were delayed de-layed somewhat Sunday and Monday, due to the late arrival of cars. Had cars arrived earlier, the total cauliflower cauli-flower shipments alone would h;:"c reached 100 carloads. And, too, the five carloads of crates, scheduled to arrive earlier, did not reach here until un-til Tuesday. A better schedule In landing cars here and the fact that an ample supply of crates are new on hand, gives assurance of steady shipments. J. S. Peterson, who has contracted the work of assembling the crates ready for packing, has a big force at work and he plans to turn out finished crates at the rate of 2,500 per day. Mr. Smith stated that some loss in cauliflower was being experience ! through the rains, followed by warm sunshine. This results in whit is known in gardening parlance as "ric-ey" "ric-ey" cauliflower, and makes the bea-? undesirable for the high class m"u- The plant, however, can be used and tons of discarded cauliflower is ca-t aside. The "ricey" heads. Mr. S'i h ! stated, would be ideal fcr pickling purposes, and same day, no doubt. this will be finding its way t p pickling pick-ling factory, either in the valley or I in some other field. |