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Show CACHE COUNTY FRUITGROWERS Chicago, 111., Sepf. 17. 1912 Dear Editor: As you announced In your valuable paper some time ago the oDard of Directors of the' Cache i'ruli Growers Assn. decided to send ii representative east to look up n iin;et for our large apple crop and at the same time render nil assistance assist-ance possible In marketing the largest larg-est peach crop tho stato has ever had. The market Is not high, but I have1 .been able to place a good many carloads at a price that made it possible to grow them at a profit. I may say it would be impossible to give a stated figure on purchases that would bo any where near correct', cor-rect', as thero aro daily changes In the market, but may say that it looks as though wo will bo able to get as good if not better prices for our Fancy Jonathans as we did last year. In my travels I visited tho Minnesota Minne-sota Stato Fair, which is possibly tho .largest Stato Fair In the country. The grounds contain something over thlity acres with cement pavements In all directions and forty-seven permanent per-manent buildings. On tho first Sun day they had nn attendance of 12rt,0fi0 &nd on tho big Roosevelt day, ?(.,000. XH) average attendance tor tho week being 85,000. Now ns to the Fair Itself, thousandc oi heads of well groomed stock weie txhlbltcd, but what naturally into' ested mo tho most was tho Horticultural Horticul-tural exhibit; this was composed mostly of flowers and shrubbery, some fow npples were exhibited aid even given first and second prizes. But when it comes to fruit, Cacho Valley is far ahead of anything that was on tho Fair, but in return their corn was far ahead of anything we grow. While wo had in our County Fair last yeitr squash that It would take two or three of their best to comparo with In weight. The east is dead ns far as politics nro concerned, no interest seems to -be taken by the masses. Very truly yours, RAS RASMUSSEN. |