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Show Track Gardeners Plan Big Planting Activities in the cauliflower r.r.d cabbage patches in the Japanese district dis-trict on the west side, have begun and the gardncrs" are planning for big plantings. The -weather conditions, together with Vhe assurance of plenty of water for irrigation purposes, gives assurance of large yields and it is expected ex-pected that record crops wil be harvested har-vested during the summer and fall. In addition to cauliflower and cabbage, cab-bage, both of which have proved highly high-ly successful, many of 1,he colony gardeners gar-deners will plant, garden peas. Experiments Ex-periments last season demonstrate! that peas yielded prolific crops and this year some twenty-five acres wiH be devoted to this delectable and appetizing ap-petizing viand. If the experiment on the larger scale is successful, S. Kim-ura, Kim-ura, pioneer Japanses settler stated, then the colony settlers will expand, and raise peas in larger quantities. A new company entering the valley for the products raised by the Japanese Japan-ese gardeners, is announced. The Pacific Pac-ific Fruit Produce company, maintaining maintain-ing some forty branch houses along the Pacific coast and inland, will take over much of the cauliflower, cabbage and peas. The Pacific Fruit company has contracted thus far, 150 acres of cauliflower, 25 acres of peas and 4(1 acres of cabbage. Smith &, Hancock, the Salt Lake wholesale merchants, will have some 75 acres of cauliflower and cabbage. Realizing that the coming season promises exceptionally good for sugar beets, nearly every gardener in the colony has sig-ned for from five to ten acres of sugar beets. The land along the river, through past experiments, has proven ideal for sugar beets when water and climatic conditions wero favorable, and the outlook this year looks mighty promising and the Japanese Jap-anese will add finances by planting acreages. |