Show ORCHARD MEN MENTO TO ORGANIZE Salt Lake County Fruit Grow Growers GroWers ers Will Form Association to Market Crops I WILL BUILD BIG CANNERY NEXT N EXT SEASONS SEASONS CROP WILL NOT BE WASTED Through the efforts of or J Edward Taylor secretary or of the state board of ot horticulture re a large number of fruit growers In the southern and eastern parts of Sat Salt Lake county have deter leter determined mined to build a fruit packing canning and arid evaporating plant which will ivill be ready for operation by the time next seasons fruit crop is ripening for the I market Secretary Taylor has been working with the fruit growers for several sea seasons seasons sons Rona to induce them to adopt association association tion methods In handling and market marketing marketing ing jug their fruits The first experiment in int t line was made by a n number of fruit growers Towers this Heason with such satisfactory results that a fruit grow growers growers ers association a may be formed before next seasons crop Is ready for market The Th entire summer Bummer has been spent by Secretary Taylor working with the fruit raisers of ot Mill Creek and the east eastern ern em end of ot the county endeavoring to demonstrate the value of ot the methods that are aro followed by the fruit growers of California Oregon and Colorado It is I a well wen known fact tact he said last night that the majority of ot or bards in this county are mixed In the th varieties of or peaches which are raised and with but few exceptions not a Slower grower 1 Is able to market a car at a time The markets of or the world are arc open to Utah fruit truit and It Is only a question of getting the fruit properly packed and in sufficient quantities to tomake tomake tomake make car lots to take advantage of the markets S Secretary Taylor has been successful in rn bringing the fruit growers to a real realization realIzation of this condition and Is getting the growers together As a result of oft this Ibis t work three full cars of ot extra f holce peaches were ere loaded at Murray and shipped to Stacey Sons at Min lIin Minneapolis Mm neapolis during the last week The fruit growers are are beginning to realize from this small demonstration the thereat great reat possibilities or oZ 0 this section as a section Heretofore th the fruit has been sold on the Salt Lake Lako market and In a a season like the pres present ent one on when the crop Is abnormally largo large the growers are confronted by byan b ban byan an overcrowded market Figuring on the prices received from the shipment of three cars there have hav been b en more than worth of peaches wasted in inthis inthis inthis this county this season The shipment last week was from the orchards of Sellers Broth Brothers ers rs H J Debenham Frank Prank Russell James Tames Russell and the Mt Olympus fruit farm owned by A V Taylor in th East Mill Creek district and the f of or Joe Moss Chris Peterson T Lars ars Larson and Milo Andrus of Holi Holl Holiday Holiday day lay district S Strength in i Union The great advance made by the fruit growers of southern California and their control of the market have been brought about by the California Citrus Growers association and similar elmila or organizations oran an said Secretary Taylor The rhe same may be said of the Grand Junction and Hood river fruit growers These rhese associations are comprised of the fruit growers themselves and they find their market and attend to the pack packing packing packing ing on a small commission basis The commission charged Is not more than half that charged by regular commis commission sion dealers These associations get crates and cases in enormous quantities and all other materials needed In packing fruits for market at the lowest loest prices at which they can be obtained In the quantities in which they are a The associations sell these supplies to the farmers at a 8 slight alight advance over the original cost and carry the farm farmers ors ers when necessary until the crop is la marketed EX E E Merrill the purchasing agent who bought the Salt Lake county peaches peachel for the Minneapolis purchaser through a number of orchards with me In this county recently and that rioTer never before had he hi seen lIeen any fruit that had better quality flavor navor and appearance and was freer from disease than th the fruit truit of ot this county Great quantities of this fruit were rotting on the tho th ground POund The Tho fruit growers are awakening to this waste and will wUl be prepared by next to prepare their fruit for mar market market ket That which cannot be sold fresh will be to canned or evaporated and an the result will be that they will derive a ar revenue r from what has heretofore been wasted asted Another thing the fruit growers are looking into Is the possibility of vf f mak malc making makIng ing a marketable peach brandy from their surplus crops |