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Show tion, and that the modern ideas now in vogue for the packing and marketing of fruit3 should be adopted here. Then the Utah fruit should be pushed to the front, and always have the preference of buyers. So also with the products of the poultry-yard and the dairy. It is a fact that these goods are largely bought in localities local-ities a thousand miles or more to the east of us. We believe that not a dollar dol-lar need be sent out of Utah if our farmers far-mers give proper attention to the matter. mat-ter. Utah is unsurpassed in her facilities facili-ties in all departments of agriculture, and ought to supply all the consumers within her own boundaries and be a shipper to Nevada and the western portions por-tions of Wyoming and Colorado. These are fruitful topics for the managers man-agers of the territorial fair. They would do a very useful thing by demonstrating dem-onstrating jus how much money Utah is paying for agricultural products that ! can be raised at home, and then showing show-ing our people how they can better themselves by correcting this evil. j It is a good thing to patronize the people of other states, but it is a better thing to take care of our own local interests in-terests first. WE IMPORT TOO MUCH. Vf believe an intelligent study f the economic system of Utah would show that our people are importing too many products of the farm that ought to be raised here. They are buying too much fruit from California, too much poultry, too many eggs and too many dairy products from Kansas. Iowa and Nebraska. The trouble in tho case of fruit is not so much that we do not raise the fruit we need, as that we do not cultivate it properly and put it on the market attractively. at-tractively. The advanced methods which have brought prosperity to California Cali-fornia fruit growers have not been practiced prac-ticed sufficiently in Utah. It is almost a crime to pay long prices for California fruit when better .fruit of the same varieties ought to come into the mark3t from our own territory terri-tory and our money' go out in ox-change ox-change for it among our own people. We are not speaking, of course, of citrus cit-rus fruits, or of deciduous California fruit that anticipates ours in the market mar-ket by a long interval. We are suggesting suggest-ing that the advanced irrigation meLh-ods meLh-ods which have brought California fruit farms almost to a stata of perfec- |
