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Show Sixteen Carloads Cauliflower Shipped Cauliflower shipments from the fields at Westview and Clarion are increasing almost daily and soon the peak of the harvest will be reached. Two carloads of the luscious vegetable vege-table were sent -: out yesterday, bringing the total car shipments to date up to sixteen. The peak of the harvest will.Cbe reached about September Sep-tember 6th' at which time extra forces will' be added fo handle the big crop. Ample provisions have also been made to have sufficient refrigerated cars at the station to receive the shipments and delays encountered en-countered last season through a shortage of cars, will be overcome. L. E. Hancock, of Smith & Hancock, Han-cock, distributors of the cauliflower, stated yesterday that the recent rains had materially increased the quality of the product, and that the , ; plants were filling splendidly and were becoming solid and firm, with a good leaf covering, thus making the cauliflower slightly better than that of last year. Evidence that the Gunnison Valley product is fast gaining favor over cauliflower raised in other sections, is shown by the new markets .being lined up. Cauliflower from the Gun-! nison Valley fields is being distribu- I ted in New Orleans, Philadelphia,! Chicago, Omaha, Kansas City and points in the east. Next year Mr. Hancock stated, New York City and other large eastern and northeastern I centers will be lined up and the elite ; of the east will be able to enjoy j some of the finest and best cauliflower cauli-flower grown in the United States, j Some forty men are now employed at the packing house alone, caring j for the shipments now going out. With the peak of the harvest near' at hand, additonal men will be necessary neces-sary to pack, the thousands of crates yet to be shipped. Together with the packing house crews, the gatherers gather-ers and the haulers, much money will be distributed through payrolls. |