Betting on the Valley's Harvest

Sufficient acreage was signed up at the meeting in the high school auditorium Tuesday evening to warrant a thorough try-out of vegetable growing in this valley on a commercial scale. Ten acres of tomatoes, six of egg plant and six of peppers, divided up among thirty or more growers, who agree to set out from 200 plants up to as high in one case as an acre, of each of the crops, was the accomplishment of the evening. These are only the hot house plants, which have to be planted next week. Meetings to apportion the acreage of the vegetable crops will be held as the time for the planting approaches. It is planned to have all the growers plant the different varieties at the same time so that they will mature together and, by setting out a sufficient acreage of each variety, to ship in car lots. The older farmers and soldier settlers are working hand in hand in the undertaking, buying their seed together from reliable seed houses and growing the crops under the direction of those who have had experience and who have been most successful.