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Show : GRAPES ITPEllTS GROWN ON OGDEN DRY FARM William P Foster, who has been Hry farming for seven years along the foothills north of Ogden canyon, Is demonstrating that many things here, tofore not classed as among the prod-ucts prod-ucts of dry farming, can be grown In one of the downtown show windows win-dows of the city he has an exhibit oi four arleties of grapes, including the concord and muscat, which have ripened earlier than irrigated grapes Hp also has peanuts and peaches i.orn 01 exceiieiu ouaiiiv is growing on five acres of his land. He has clmrry trees three years old which are thrifty and most promising Mr. Foster Is beginning to think that anything- raised by irrigation can be grown on his bench land. Ills socress ho attributes to thorough thor-ough cultivation of the soil after each rain storm In the spring He uses a spring tooth harrow and keeps the surface well broken up, In fact reduces re-duces the top layer of earth to a mulch His peanut crop covers a quarter of an acre and promises a big yield |