Show FRUIT GROWERS ESTIMATE r DAMAGE DONE BY FROST Special to The Ogden April 16 Fully 50 60 per cent of the fruit blossoms escaped d the frost trost frostIn In Weber county according to esti estimates estimates estimates mates of prominent fruit growers to today today day dat and unless further damage is caused by unexpected cold weather the I Is good for a reasonably large crop Officials of the Pioneer Fruit company who have contracts with the members of the Weber County Fruit Growers association to handle this years ears crop say that the trees this year were so heavily loaded with blos bios blossoms blossoms 1 that 76 75 per cent could be de destroyed deIF and still leave a Ii fair fall crop The IF heaviest loss los Ws was in the southern south rn por portion portion portion tion of the county where about two thirds of the blossoms were killed while in other sections the per cent of damage wa walt much less making a net average It is claimed of about 50 60 per percent percent percent cent of the crop still left This will wUl Insure a better fruit and will wUl do away with the pruning and thin thinning nine fling out |