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Show i i- . I ..... . . j HORTICULTURE FORTHCOMING REPORT OF HORTICULTURAL BOARD. Utah's Great Strides In Fruit Raising Rais-ing Will Be Shown. A great ma9s of very gratifying information in-formation will be included in the forthcoming report of the state horticultural horti-cultural board to the governor and the legislature. The report will show great strides in Utah during the last two years in fruit raising. Although it is understood the report will not be ready for some days yet, on account ac-count of delays in getting statistics of various items from several of the counties, personal canvasses have been made by individual horticulturists which show very great gains in the fruit raising industry, in methods ol orchardists in fact, in all lines of horticulture. There will probably be some changes that will be recommend-cd recommend-cd in regard to orchard inspections and in the system of regulations, but just what they will be is not yet known. It is predicted that the lig convention conven-tion under the auspices of the State Horticultural society to be held at some date not yet specified this month in Salt Lake, will be one of the most largely attended conventions of its kind in the state. And it is also 'expected 'ex-pected to be the most interesting and instructive convention ever held in Utah. This prediction is based upon up-on the great interest that has been manifested in fruit raising during the past two years, the increase in acreage acre-age of orchards, the great increase in the amount of fruit raised, canned and shipped and the increase in the number of persons who have turned their attention to horticulture within the time stated. It is said that before the time of the convention there will have been gathered a whole lot of interesting in-teresting data for the benefit of the growers, canncrs and shippers who will be present. Some very interesting interest-ing statistics have already been gathered. gath-ered. For instance, figures have been collected col-lected which show that in the state there has been a gain of 61 per cent in acr.cage of orchards ainct 1906 and th figur,i gathered tak into con- fdration only the planting of treoe covering areas of half an acre and up. A great many family orchards of ten to twenty trees have been planted of which no consideration is taken in compiling the statistics. The greatest increase in acreage is shown in Weber county, which is reported re-ported to have an acreage of 1,423 planted in 1908, an increase of 400 per cent over 1906. Emery county will show an' increase of 226 per cent in acreage, the comparison being 1,-148 1,-148 acres in 1906 and 3,748 acres in 1908. Cache county, with 400 acres planted in 1908, shows an increase over 1906 of 124 per cent. During the last year, 1908, there were acreages planted 'as follows: Davis, 500; Weber, 1,423; Box Elder, 1,200; Utah, 2,000; Grand, 70; Emery, 2,000; Cache, 400. Grand county shipped the greatest number of carload's of fruit in 1908, its number of cars being 568 against 249 in 1906. Sanpete and Sevier "counties "coun-ties shipped together eight carloads of fruits in 1906, but there was no fruit there in 1908. Every other fruit raising county in the state increased the number of carloads shipped in 1908 over the number in 1906, notwithstanding not-withstanding that the number of canning can-ning factories each of which took great amount of fruit, had increased in the big fruit regions. Emery county coun-ty shipped eight cars last year, five more than in 1906. Salt Lake county shipped 218 cars in 1906, and 269 cars in 1908. Carload shipments in other counties were as follows: Davis, three in 1906, 28 in 1908; Box Elder, 10 in 1906, 49 in 1908; Utah, 235 in 1906, 325 in 1908; Cache, 27 in 1906, 33 m 1908. And the best of all is the report of indications that the increase of planting will continue at just as satisfactory sat-isfactory a ratio during the coming two years as during the last two years, For this reason recommendations recommenda-tions for rules to increase the efficiency effi-ciency of the inspection work of orchards or-chards are expected to be made. The present system of horticultural inspection in-spection in a number of respects is not deemed efficient and the state inspector in-spector at present is burdened with a great deal of responsibility that it is thought should b sbifttd by mana of revised methods. The county !n- j spectors at present arc under the control con-trol of the state board, which it is thought they should be. They arc rather under the direct jurisdiction ! of the county commissioners and many of these county commissioners arc not familiar with the work and do not realize its importance. It is the aim to adopt rules and methods that will make uniform results possible. -o |