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Show LEMONS. . , The value of lemons in the domestic domes-tic economy is not fully appreciated by the public generally. In a price catalog J got up the following was inserted!: THE USE OF LEMONS , Gargle a bad sore throat with a strong solution of Jemon juice and water. The juice of half a lemon in a cup of black coffee without sugar will cure sick headache. Lemon juice and salt will remove iron rust. f Wash fruit-stained hands in i lemon juice to take off the stains. A strong, unsweetened lemonade, taken' half an hour before breakfast, will prevent and cure a bilious attack, as w.cll as removing the darkest of dark brown"tastcs.- , Lemon juice added to milk until it curds and these curds then bound! upon up-on parts swollen from rheumatism will bring relief. The value of lemons in the treatment treat-ment of rheumatism) and consumption is now known to be great. The treatment treat-ment is to begin with one or two a day and gradually increase the number. num-ber. As a preventive of illness, however, how-ever, half a lemon a day is all that should be taken that is, if taken every ev-ery day, year in and year out. Lemon juice, mixed vcryi thick with sugar will relieve that tickling cough that is so annoying. A hot lemonade taken before going go-ing to bed will cure a cold on the lungs. A cloth saturated in lemon 'cc and bound about a cut or wound will stop its bleeding. Lemon juice added to fruit juices that do not jell readily, such as cherries, cher-ries, strawberries, etc, will cause them to jell. Lemon extract. LcV stand the rind '(Continued on page 15.) I HORTICULTURE UTAH FRUIT GROWERS MEET. (Continued from page 3.) the death of trees was apparently caused by an impervious layer of hardpan close to the surface, but in any case it was certainly not caused by the arsenical poisoning. The whole of the afternoon session was occupied by Mr. E. II. Shcpard of Hood River, Ore., in explaining lov the fruit growers' organization icould be effected and how it could be conducted He also gave in a very entertaining way ideas that he had found useful in advertising the Hood River fruit country and in getting top prices for apples. After his talk considerable con-siderable time was spent by him in answering scores of questions about how the fruit-growers shotild organize. organ-ize. Mr. Shcpard spoke about the Porter bill in congress and urged the fruitgrowers fruit-growers of "Utah to take action against the measure and to sec that their delegates in congress were instructed in-structed accordingly. He explained that the measure was a knock against western growers in that it called for uniform sizes of. fruit boxes and that it require'd when apples arc sold by the bushel they should be heaped up. Mr. Shcpard stated the official box-cs box-cs now used in the northwest arc the result of an evolution in packing. A box has been worked out of such shape as will accommodate the various vari-ous sizes of apples. These apples arc sold by the bo'x and not by the bushel, but as a matter of fact the box now used contains a little more than the government standard bushel. Mr. Shcpard denounced the methods meth-ods of many speculators and promoters promot-ers who buy fruit lands for speculation. specula-tion. He said what the West wanted was men to come into the -.northwest and settle on land and) improve it. 'He spoke of the advantages to be deprived de-prived from the work of the experiment experi-ment 'stations and closed his remarks ''with some interesting remarks about tf work of the Hood,fRivqr Frujt- Growers' Association. This is a mu- tual association in which every anero-bcrmusfcrbc anero-bcrmusfcrbc a .holder of stock. The sRcike'rd1 great' stress oTT 1he:'im-iJSpf&nce 1he:'im-iJSpf&nce o"f getting an able manager for an association. Don't employ some man .because he is honest and because he will work for $75-oo a month. The manager must be honest, hon-est, have executive ability and com- 1 maud the respect of the powers. Mr. Shcpard emphasized the importance im-portance of miaking the fruit look as attractive as possible. On each box . should! be stamped or stenciled the J name of the growcrand his postofijee ijjTT address. Thcsc labels advertise the E district, the association, the growers ;1 and the state. f At the evening session, Prof. E. G. jL Titus, entomologist of flic State Ag- ricultural College, gave an interest- I ing talk on "Troublesome Insects of 1908," treating particularly of the 1 pests of orchards in Utah, and the j various ways of dealing with them. I Endch Farr, a fruit-grower of Og- den, gave' an interesting talk on his 1 successful1 efforts to save his fruit J trees from frost last spring. Mr. A Farr used nots of crude oil, placing I forty pots, to an acre. These pots 1 cost him 20v cents apiece and each held about three quarts of oil. He was followed by J. Edward Taylor, secretary of the state board of horticulture, who'shovcd samples of a number of oil burn rs and coal burners used by the Colorado fruitgrowers. fruit-growers. J Mr. Ta'ylor was followccF.by John i F. Moore of Grand Junction, nvho explained ex-plained .the use of these heating devices de-vices and howfthey had been used with suoccss by the Colorado growers. grow-ers. At the morning session of the second sec-ond day, Mr. Charles Smith of Ccn-tcrvillc, Ccn-tcrvillc, made a very entertaining and instructive talk, in which he urged the use of western grown trees in 1 H Western orchards; 'He stated that S nursery stock grown in the West was flf acclimated and naturally would give IB better satisfaction than Eastern stock. H This was followed by a lively dis- Ht ctission in which was raised the qucs- H tion of., the advisability of requiring 'M: nurserymen to give bo d good for f seven years that their stock was true t to name. Mrs. Sarah J. Konold followed this 1 discussion with a paper on her cx- JF p ricnecs in handling a peach orchard. F Mrs. Konold has made a success of Sf "fruit-growing, and she told of her W experience in this line after she had 1 been left alone in the world with f : three children dependent upon her. The rest of the forenoon was taken W up by a talk, on "Fungi and Fungi- 1 cides," by E. H. Favor of the Utah W Agricultural College. The afternoon session was largely devoted to the election of officers y .and reading of resolutions. When I; hcsc matters' were adjusted Mr. John F. Moore manager vpf the Grand Junction Fruit-Grower,' Association of Grand Junction, Colo., read a pa-. pa-. per. on "Conditions Affecting Prices J" ofrFruit in 1908." Mr. Moore spoke , .about some of the causes affecting K ' the low price ofypcaches and con- cludcd his talk' with some valuable ) , bits of information on fruit-growers' . . J' organization. Charles F. Lansing, of the William Roylance Company of Provo, followed follow-ed Mr. Moore with a talk on the B- grcatimportancc of attractive pack- 1 ing fruit for miarkct. 1 JRt the closing session, Prof. I ;R. S. Northrop, .of Utah Agri- fy cultural College, made an address if on the subject of "Pruning and Thin- 1 ning as Factors in the Production of M. B ttcr Fruit." He said pruning was E . absolutely necessary to get right re- Mj su' - and he gave some interesting I mud highly instructive information I concerning experimcrits made in the I college's experiment orchards. These I figures showed how. fruit was im- I proved and the crops increased by J scientific pruning. w . The session was closqd by a gen- it feJM?ttSSUfigifiU.aUyoa'"t 'oupc-grQ.wing 1 ' 'i1 thayou: g nrphard. xxpf. JK 1 ; .,Mnor"VTr.a d Junction tofd'oraRS s. rsUcccsr of orcnardists In his sqtjou W " in raising caiTteloupes, but he said I' , raising would have to be n a large scale to be at all profitable, as in marketing them not less than a .carload .car-load a day must be furnished. Every person present was in attendance at-tendance for the purpose seemingly of getting all the good he could out of the meeting and assisting in every .possible manner, to make the meeting meet-ing a great success. This has resulted re-sulted in a stronger union between the individual fruit-growers and will bring about the organization, in the near future, of a well managed shippers' ship-pers' association. E. H. F. |