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Show FROST IS SEVERE ii ira com Reports on the operations of Jack ; Frost in the last seveial days continue to indicate that the worst behavior I was directed against the fruit of I tab j county, though strawberries and cher I ries in Salt Lake county are known to have suffered. J. W. Flowers of I 470 Thirteentli East street reported 'to A H Thiessen, section director i of the weather bureau, yesterday, that ! 00 per cent of his strawberry crop i had Keen ruined and also half eacb of ( his apricot and sweet cherry crops Generally the frost was healer to the south of Salt Lake, according to j Mr. Thiessen's information, though there wore instances In which frost ! occurred jn unexpected places in Salt lake county and counties to the north This is characteristic behavior on the 1 part of frost, says Mr Thiessen. It Is the result of different conditions of I protection against heat radiation,, due , sometimes to the presence nr absence of clouds or to the lav 0f the land and action of the wind Price ,May 3,. Almost a quartet , inch of ice froze in this city last night and fruit growers claim early fruit la almost a total loss and applc.s damaged dam-aged to an extent not yet known |