Show i fRUIT DAMAGE I MAY BE Of NEARLY TWO Horticulturists Believe Recent Losses by Storm Most Se Severe Severe Severe vere Ever Known SMUDGE POTS WERE EFFECTIVE WEBER WEDER FRUIT GROWERS OAK GAil NOT AGREE ON EXTENT OF DAMAGES 00 0 00 o 5 Grand Junction Colo Cole May ay 1 I 0 W M Roylance Provo Utah w 8 Damage to cross crop in iD this has hU a been very slight Smudge pee pott 4 saved us MOORE MOOR E EThe 4 4 The k loss Ios si to the fruit trait crop in III 4 4 Utah by iea reason on of the tile 4 o storms is probably the tho mot most severs seven that has hu ever been beeD experienced t Here are a few figures in the tM tb M os ost I t that W M I Roylance the tha 4 prominent fruit y 4 chant gives The Herald at a was v S ture tUft f Total otal Mp in lii state ter a ML ut ef cars 4 lie lUe of o 0 each earh ear car ca r 4 J 0 0 0 I Nearly two to millions o of dollars doll t down don ta In Ice when he the t storm camp and the of or t tan tab was at 1 i Went down do n ta iii taice i I ice lee is a coined for f the occasion i and with a purpose in ill view Yiew tew instead ef at saying that something go goes cues up n i r I smoke this Is the time to say sa tha two of dollars would have hae been II saved had there iMre been smoke to go CO in Brief reference is made rade to the tele telf telegram telegram I gram from Director Di tor Moore at Grand Junction Jun th the center of the famous fruit I growing section just Jut to the east of f Utah to the effect that ha t the crop was i 1 very slightly damaged because beca so H there was a systematic use of or smudge pot pots What Smudge Pots Are It should be a lesson to toe the growers grower I in Utah said Mr who is a I visitor for a day Had the they used t tt these t cheap devices they ther would ha ba hav 11 saved ved a million and i J 4 i worth of fruit 1 UW What t tm a smudge ud e pet Mr Ro Roy RoyIs I cr IB Is J aita or W other O lel m 1 Teasel oval east ovalin I in shape ape like a wooden bowl that you 1 wife Chops chop up the hash In tn much Indeed alter after the shape of some of tilt the haw hats the women wear ear nowadays The They y i cost coet about 35 II cents f Two quarts quart of crude oil are poured into these smudge pots and the oil i 1 f ignited It creates a pleasant warmth and a smoke that is hotter h than 1 id i like to say The oil costs about 6 or 7 cents a gallon pilon in III carload lots lotI From t I forty to MO IGO I of the pot pots to the acre of nr orchard according aC to i and weather conditions are sufficient t to Increase the temperature at least 10 pet per percent i rent cent They do not have han to be lightel until 11 at night and the tilt oil will burn for eight liours two quarts quart Scientific Methods Necessary I 11 hI 1 note b by the morning fro I Ithe the weather department that the lowest Ii average ave was 31 n degrees Had there bee bees I placed in m use Ulle smudge pots pot the tempera temperature temperature ture would hae have been raised so soan that dIat i ian an increase of or 10 degrees d 5 weid w i have hav ha been the result This Thill would hay have prevented the formation of Ice on ou tile buds I As All it tt is aa as soon as a the sun came eanie a et ost next day the ice I on the buds was wan nett netted 1 ed and the they were yes j the proper word And then they their died and then there the was wu no more mon m hs of 0 peaches pea hea or sweet or orand II and little hope of pear pears the ama ma e tie lo I which I i calculate is 18 about halt half ers ere i Apples judging from the in information formatted eB I we have at this time are not so i hurt but I look took for tor later reports ii 1 harm to this tb crop also al I The grower groer of Utah Itah must get tote late the habit of using the latest methods met 1 of propagating their crops The pres present pe ent deplorable situation is an example exa i of what was wu done In the Grand A alter i and which was not done generally generall i lq 1 Utah ii i FRUIT GROWERS AT SEA ABOUT DAMAGES J i to The Thi Herald i Ogden Open 1 Fruit growers grower are areat nfl all at sea Bell as IlS to the extent of the theto theto iU l to the tM fruit crop b the recent frosts One Ont man w wll M v say aY y that the tile e etire an tire fruit crop of the t county JUDt han baa bean destroyed troyed ard ar perhaps a man mAlt just across the street from him wil ar that little real resi damage ha hs haE h l lE buss dons E F G M McGrIft McGriff Griff one inc on of f the largest fl growers in the tate state it is said wW wIN i 1 have bave half a 1 crop He lie lives I ill tB Nth hi Ogden Q J M Forristall is Of tJ tile the o a aon on that there will wm bt be b a crap eC of I peaches cherries and a nd other pitted fruit 1 in the northern part nf f the county count countOn On the other hand it is general conceded that through the tho Ii and Roy fruit belt In the of the county count everything ha haS hall b I frozen solid PO so that there w will ill be p t lIy no fruit at t all in those I Strawberries ha have e been l lit in I r rall all parts of the count Continued on Page 2 1 FRUIT DAMAGE 1 MAY BE NEARLY JEARL Y TWO MILLIONS I Continued from page 1 I i kh i are HI still till considered a af c general feeling tHURI of depression a tk K I mu the fruit raisers it r n eded on all sides that the theS i I I S neen OCIl 11 immense in III the county count counti i h I i HIP r promised to be unusually I pots pom were re used to a ar r 1 i I f tent x In some som orchards |