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Show PEAS MEANS MARKETED SOON Vegetable Output From Local Lo-cal Gardens About Ready Green peas, from local farms, prom-iso prom-iso to bo tho latest addition to Ogden tablca and within a few days, probably prob-ably a week, plenty of this vegetable will bo on the market at a comparatively compara-tively low price. Siring beans, although somewhat retarded re-tarded by frost, will shortly put In their appearance together with cucumbers cu-cumbers from local gardens. Tho tomato crop, while not ready for harvest, bids fair to be ready In about a month and will displace the California product, whose price, 2b cents per pound, has not altered appreciably ap-preciably since tho Initial appearance of the tomatoes this spring. In tho fruit line, watcrmolons, plums, and gooseberries mark tho lat-esi lat-esi arrivals. The gooseocrrlcs, which I are local products, retail at a low price. The watermelons, which aro being shipped from other portions of tho country, are selling for seven and a half cents per pound. Cantaloupes, of fair size, are being marketed at about twelvo and a half cents each, although some of the I imaller ones havo been orrered at I ten cents each. I The strawberry crop has reached its clinax and is on the decline. It is , stated, but prices for this fruit continue con-tinue to bo unusually high. 1 At no time this season will tho ber- 1 ries retail at the old prlco of two cups for a quarter, It Is stated ; Cherries will bo numerous and fruit' of the early varfoly is now being sold at tho average cost of twenty-five cents per pound. |