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Show CARLOAD OF CHERRIES SHIPPED 10 CHUN ). G. McGrilV. .Scientific Fruit Grower. lias Met With . Success. Special lo The Tribuno. OCDEN. July 14. The first full carload of cherries over shipped out of Utah to a commiswion house in the East was loaded and shipped at. the end of last week by E. C. AIcGrlff, a fruit grower of North Ogden The consignment went to a commission houco In Chicago, and comprised black hearts. Napoleons and many other standard varieties, nil grown on the frill L farm of Mr. Mc.Giiff. The grower Is a graduate of the University Uni-versity of Iowa, and at. that Institution acquired a sood knowledge- of botany and a- series of expert Ideas in horticulture, which he has since put to practical use In Wober county, where the soil and climate Js generally well adapted to the growth of the fruits of the temperate I 7.one. When he came to Ogden some years ago, and after his graduation, ho wrote a commission merchant In the 1 East, with, whom he was acquainted. I asking him to give him an order for 1 I'tah cherries In carload lots. Tho dealer declined them, saying he wanted no Utah cherries. Mr. McGrii? then bought a tract of 1 bench and planted It In cherries, with i the result tliat he is now shipping a product to Enstcrn cities Hint Is shutting out the California" frull In that section. He Is prepared to give lectures If noccs-t noccs-t sary on how to grow tho best varieties In this soli and climate and Is trying to Induce other hortlcull urists here to put In a more extended acrcago of this fruit and follow his methods of cultivation, lie says that the Ulah cherry, when prop-terly prop-terly cultivated. Is the superior of the California or the Eastern product, and that It wJH ultimately becomo a great in- ' ' 1 a nroQtablc one. , . 1 |