| Show TALKS ON HORTICULTURE I President Judd and Secretary Wright 0 in Utah County i Provo July President Judd and Secretary Wrlffht of thc State Board of Horticulture visited the fruitgrow er in the vicinity oC Provo yesterday They were accompanied by Senator Smoot and Mr C F Decker in their trip amplify the orchardlsts and the visit 0 proved highly Interesting and beneficial bene-ficial encouragement and information j I being given to the fruit raisers In the evening a meeting was held In the courthouse which was attended by Messrs Judd and Wright and Mr H E Carey the other member of the I board President Judd called attention to the fact that Utah county was one of the best horticultural sections of thc I country a fact which a visit to California Cali-fornia had strongly Impressed upon the I speakers mind but which he feared I was not fully appreciated by the people peo-ple here The speaker next spoke of I thc necessity for planting commercial orchards large orchards of the same variety of treesso that the products could be marketed to the best advantage ad-vantage This would also insure better bet-ter I attention and care of the trees planted than small orchards with a large variety of trees Mr Judd gave an Interesting sketch Of the operations of a canning factory he had visited In Los Angeles Cal and strongly urged the ereotion of a cannery can-nery In Provo showing the great advantage ad-vantage such a plant would be not only to the fruitgrowers but to thc business men and the public generally It would give the fruitgrowers the same sure market for their fruit as the beetgrowers now have for their products prod-ucts He closed by advocating a local horticultural society which would enable en-able the members to exchange ideas and encourage one another to intelligent 0 intelli-gent study and experiments a o J Secretary Wright was of the opinion that a cannery and an evaporating plant would be of greater financial benefit 0 ben-efit to the people than a sugar factory 0 and it would only take onetenth of the capital required to build I a sugar factory to build a cannery He said this ts a friend of the sugar factories and fully appreciative of the benefits the sugar Industry had brough to Ttah and only for purposes of illustration Illustra-tion A cannery and evaporating plant would not only enable the fruitgrow ers to obtain a sure and profitable market mar-ket for all their fruit but would raise the reputation of Utah fruits In the market as it would enable the fruit growers to t utilize the second grade fruits for canning and the third grade fqr drying thus leaving l no temptation tempta-tion to ship as fresh fruit any but the very best quality As one Item of profit he called attention to the estimate esti-mate of three leading jobbers oC the Slate that 200000 wan sent out of the State annually for dried fruit which could be supplied here from fruit that Is I now being wasted and In addition 200000 or more could be dried for export ex-port The business men were urged to take hold of this matter as It would prove a good investment so far as Interest In-terest on the money Invested is concerned con-cerned and the general benefits to the community would be great Illustrative Illustra-tive of the profit of Intelligent fruit culture Mr Wright told an Interesting story of an Ogden man who in 1S92 planted a fiftyfivcacre farm to fruit trees The man was making a scant 0 living on his farm at that time and was refused 30 an aero for the land A fruit tree agent came along and proved a blessing In disguise He sold the farmer 5500 trees for which the farmer far-mer obligated himself to pay S1700 The farmers boys when they heard of their fathers purchase threatened to leave the farm the wife of the farmer threatened threat-ened o obtain a divorce and the neighbors neigh-bors were called In conference to try hnd persuade the old gentleman to rescind re-scind the order All agreed that he was crazy On this point the farmer was 0 not sure but they were right but liens V > lie-ns a determined Scotchman and made up his mind to stay with his contract and planL his trees if he lost his farm by it In two years from that time he had paid for his trees by raising watermelons and tomatoes between the trees and last year he cleared 8000 from his orchard and was offered 500 0 an acre for the land which he refused re-fused He has bought more land the boys have not left the farm and live In fine houses and of course Mrs 0 Farmer does not want u divorce jIr Wright spoke In high praise of the eire bestowed upon some of thc orchards 0 around Provo and encouraged 0 the shiftless orclmrdists to go and do likewise Thc benefits of planting large orchardt was pointed out and Illustrations Illus-trations from actual occurrences given Large orchards would bring large buyers buy-ers who would compete for the crops They cannot be supplied anywhere In Utah today and consequently have tog to-g elsewhere This with the lack of canneries and evaporating plants leaves Utah in the position of producing produc-ing too much fruit for home consumption consump-tion andnot enough for profitable exportation ex-portation Questions were asked and answered In regard to spraying etc for the destruction de-struction of red spiders and other pests 0 Brief remarks were made by Senator Smoot and Mayor Taylor appreciative of the visit and instructions of the members of the board and promising to aid In the cannery project which has already been under consideration by Provo business men Messrs Judd and Wright promised to make another visit at an early date when a larger audience was promised They were tendered a vott > of thanks at the close of the meeting |
