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Show cellent early strawberry that comM into market about May 10 and th first bcrrleU arriving from Kenoe-wick Kenoe-wick on tho Seattle market bring t high as J7 to $8 a case of 24 enpj, (elllng down as low as SI 25 a ras-i at the cheapest, "The best strawberries bo-crcr are those grown on the Inlands near Tacoroa and Seattle, having a firm body, large in Jalae with excellent flavor. The wthr this year tbc flnect for berry growing that could be desired. "In tho raspberry, Logan and black-berry black-berry line tbe most are grown near Sumner and Puyalllp near Taromn. i At these points tbey grow in largq j tracts from three to twenty acres, j the yield being Immense They hav a canning factory for preparing the berries not suitable for shipping Then they have a lot of umall ponj-refrigerators ponj-refrigerators which will hold about sixty cups. These they Ire thoroughly thorough-ly and ship over Montana, tbe Da-kotas Da-kotas and Mlnneoota, while carloM lots go aa far as Chicago. They ghlp-j1 ghlp-j1 eighty carloads of rajpberrlrj I alone this yenr besides what they cent to the cannery. "Fruit conditions all over the northwest north-west are of the best. At North Yakima Yak-ima and Walla Walla, prunes an! peaches were starting while In eastern east-ern Oregon and Idaho they claim to have the largest prune crop in yearn When asked what he thought of tb ! booster methods adopted by th Merchants Mer-chants and Manufacturers as.oocla-tion as.oocla-tion here, Mr. Olsen replied that be thought they were very good as far as they went and that great good comes from harmonious action. He advised, however, that if tbe citizens citi-zens of Ogden wished to booat the city that they could do so in a better way. viz: by showing their own faith in the city by keeping it cleaner, doing more paving, and waking up to the up-to-date ideas for .progress. They should maintain an exhibit of our resources at the Union tatioa so that people passing through Ogden Og-den may see what we have. BERRY GROWING IN WASHINGTON J. J. Olsen has returned from Ta-coma, Ta-coma, Washington, where he and his ; brother are operating a canning fac- . tory, recently built by them. , In speaking of tho berry growing ' conditions in Washington, Mr. Olsen Bald: "At Kennewlck thoy grow so ex- |