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Show FRUIT MEN HAVE BEEN BUNCOED 1 Peach growers at Prighaiii City arc said to have lost thousands of dollars this year by heeding the tactful importunities im-portunities nf fruit purchasing agents from the middle west. liefore the ripening of the fruit, the peach growers In the vicinity of the Peach City were besieged by the representatives rep-resentatives of the middle west fruit companies, who told tales of tho enormous enor-mous peach crops In Michigan and all pther eastern peach staten. It was claimed by the agents that the heavy crops would bring the price of peaches to disastrously low figures and, to escape low prices, many growers grow-ers contracted with the agents to furnish fur-nish a certain number of bushels of the fruit at .1 stipulated price. |