Show our orchards this is a great climate for fruit growers more luscious fruits cannot ba grown anywhere else in the united ideates than right here in utah valley this fact has been demonstrated and needs no argument now in baars gone by conr peaches and pears were especially famous on the home and eastern market jast like our potatoes now these fruits were called for by the best hotels high freight rates were against us however because california raised so much more fruit for shipment than utah the arnit growers of the state got through rates to the missouri river cheaper than the rates gevea utah where the haul waa only about half the distance this af coarse acted against utah fruit growers and our neglected today they are in a pestiferous condition and very little fruit is raised that is free from worms cankerous buat or other poisonous and destroying aub stance the result is that utah fruit haa been off from eyen the home market and imported apples are this bringing 4 per the last legislature paw the necessity of deiv n the arut industry of utah ami i eal ea l a wise law re ingall fruit trees to be spruced and kept cluan tim object of the law is to rid the country of fruit pesta A few deais patient care of our orchards will accomplish com thie and it need not involve much A pound of paris green or london purple coats or 35 centa and it is said that either substance aub stance can be mixed with gallons of water for spraying purposes than u small hand pump costing probably 50 cants is nerea sary to carry the spray onto tho bough efrom three to five gallons are used to the tree so it can be understood that spraying aeed not cost much and it ia said that the befit of results can be obtained from spraying when the trees are in bloom the agga egga of insects are then laid in the blossom and when hatched eat way into the forming fruit it is then necessary that they get a dose of poison to preserve the fruit which spraying usually accomplishes biet every one spray in season this year inspectors Ins should soy it done |