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Show TELLS ABOUT FRUIT Annual Report ef Inspector John P. Sorensen. MANY SUGGESTIONS MADE Number f Acres In Fruit Trees and Berries. Some of tho Pests That Bother Fruit Growers, and the Remedies Proposed. Some valuable information to thn farmers of this locality Is contained in the annual report of John P. Sorenson, Inspector of pests for Salt Lake county, which has just been completed and filed with the Board of County Commissioners. Com-missioners. The report shows that there are LM17 acres of fruit trees in the county outside of those In Salt Lake tjiiy anu hil acres ot oernes. in inc city there are 300 acres of fruit trees. In reference to the fruit shipped Into the markets the Inspector says that only about 25 per cent is properly sorted, prepared and boxed and that the balance comes In any old way In tins, sacks, soap boxes and old barrels. Most of the fruit does not pass through the markets, but Is sold direct to the consumer. The Industry, he says, can be made a profitable one If it Is given half the attention that Is devoted to lucerne, beets and other crops. The report enumerates the following nests that the frult-crnwors and farm ers have to contend with: Codlln moth larvae, wooly aphis, pear slug, pear blight, crown gall, red spider, currant worm and peach curl. Mr. Sorenson has sent out printed Instructions telling how to best cope with and destroy these pests. During the past year the Char-lotto Char-lotto peach has been introduced into the county by Santo Casto of Holllday and Mr. Sorenson has Introduced the sugar prune and the Fitzgerald and Bo-kava Bo-kava peach. The following advice Is given In relation rela-tion to where to grow fruit. Peaches on the upper benches; apples and pears on tho low, wet and well-watered lands; cherries and prunes on the lands between these that are free from late spring frosts; and berries anywhere. any-where. Mr. Sorenson says the prune-growing prune-growing Industry Is a farce; that It may be all right to raise fruit for home consumption, con-sumption, but that it Is foolish to try to compete with California and Idaho In the markets of the country. In relation to the best varieties of fruits to raise in Salt Lake county, Mr. Sorenson has the following to say: "Apples "Ap-ples for commercial orchards that pay, are Jonathan, Ben Davis, Rome Beauty, Gano, all great bearers and goods sellers sell-ers and good winter apples. For peddlers' ped-dlers' orchards add to above for fall, Twenty Ounce and Rhode Island Greening. Green-ing. "For summer peddling add to above a few Yellow Transparent, Red Astri-can Astri-can and Duchess of Oldenburg. Do not go outside these varieties, stay by them and thoy will stay by you and fill your purse. "As for peaches, JSlberta and Utah Orange, if you want to ship by carloaJ out of State, but for local market leave them alone. The home market Is overloaded over-loaded now and will be more so. Plant Instead for homo market the Foster, the Brighton. Early Rivers, Early Crawford. Hale's Early. Charlotte Mountain Rose, Triumph and Alexander. Alexan-der. All of these arc good bearers and splendid peddlers, but poor shippers, but all coming one after another and In best time. "For cherries raise the Blng, the Black Talaman, Napoleon and Gov Wood; sweet cherries the Montmorency, Montmor-ency, Empress Eugene, Reine Hortens, aro the ones to plant to make money, but do not plant where late spring frost will nip the blossoms. "As for prunes, do not waste time and sand In Salt Lake valley on them. They do not pay. "I would also add that farmers' Institutes Insti-tutes and lectures about the country to assemblies of farmers may do something some-thing to Improve our fruits and frult-rai8lng. frult-rai8lng. but I would especially give attention at-tention by lectures to county school children of Gth, 7th and Sth grades. There Is where the work Is to be done to count In the future. Besides there are very many old and useless orchards, with dead and diseased trees, in the city that are an eyesore, not to say u disgrace to any civilized community, producing nothing but Insects, worms and pests to annoy and distress their neighbors, as they mostly belong to .speculators, abs'enteos and estates In the Probate court. There seems to be no way to improve this condition, cx-copt cx-copt giving authority by law to the inspector in-spector to declare them a public nuisance, nui-sance, and after sixty days' notice published pub-lished in the papers, also posted on the ground, Gond a man to chop them down and burn them and charge the expense as a lien against the property. "In California a radical measure Uko this became a neceeslty and before a measure of that kind Is strictly enforced en-forced we need not expect to successfully success-fully raise good fruits, berries or flowers flow-ers In Salt Lake City." |