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Show I I ENCOURAGE TIE I SROffMEIF FRUIT Kl Horticultural Society Will Figlit for Recognition of H; Great Industry. K CONVENTION HOLDS H ELECTION OP OFFICERS I ! Telling Speeches Delivered, if Urging Action by Members yl of Organization, tj To push the adoption of tho best meth- i ods of producing marketable fruits, to de li) vote a great amount of attention to the ft most scientific methods of preserving PI Yrult trees and produce, to properly con- f ' " scn'c the Interests of fruit grower, tho shippers, the buyors. and. finally, to Inculcate In-culcate In tho youth of tho State of Utah n feeling of admiration Tor tho agricultural agricul-tural Industries of the State and a realization realiza-tion of the dignity of labor in Intimate, connection with tho soli iuid that'll will produce; to Impress upon them the need of learning how to best brine out. the undeveloped rsourcus of a State which if? destined to become on? of tho greatest agricultural communities In the Union. woro the objects of many enthusiastic and earnest speeches and talks at the sec-ond sec-ond day's session of the fourth annual convention of the f.'tuh State Horticultural Horticul-tural society Tuesday. The convention opened Monday afternoon after-noon with an attendance far In advance of that of any other convention. The. proceedings pro-ceedings of tho second day of the convention con-vention showed that an interest had been aroused In the work of tho society which fax oxcollcd that of all previous meetinge, There were 'more than five huildred dele-pates dele-pates and visitors present at the meeting: meet-ing: of Monday, and there were more than . one thousand people In tho convention liall Tuesday evening: when Dr. .1. A. " Wldtsoe. president of the Utah State Ag-' Ag-' rlcultural college, delivered his telling nd-i nd-i dress, urging- upon his auditors the need of education of their sons am! daughters I in the affairs of the farms and orchards of Iw5l' Members anow interest.. The meetings of the convention have litwE keen marked throughout with a spirit of fOwBi co-operation. The members of the so- VQgfo clety followed carefully the paper read fctyVi1 hv practical men. by successful cultiva te, tors of rrults. and by scientists who are WHttl giving their lives to determining means BPSrTu preventing depredations of orchard pests and to voicing the necesally of or-wi'jf'r or-wi'jf'r ganixlng associations In charge of coinpe- MTlr tent managers who will conduct tho mar- Xfl kotlng the fruit oropn of Utah 'n a way Wpr that will Inure to the betterment of the niflj . grower and State. ( V At ttio business mooting in tho afler- noon Tuesday the following resolutions fixlBw were adopted: .'SjBv - "First That the Hon. Thomas Judd of St. Gcorgo, Utah, is hereby made an eirr honorary president of the association, for i.tfll "Second That we congratulate the State Board of Horticulture on Its splen- '"ilB- did record In promoting tho Interests of Wf-W; horticulture within this State, and the J&0I wide advertisement of our Slato through 110 the prize exhibits mndc at Boise, Ida., ;m jl and at Sacrnmenlo, Cal. i.l "Third That we commend the action l M. of the Slate Board of Horticulture In ap- ijl 'Mj proprlatJng means for the continuation of it n tho experiment station of Utnh. 111 m 4 That we endorse the policy or the government in conserving the National II forests of the West, believing such policy 1 to bo for tho best interests of the public To Protect Industry. 1 3 Thai we use our influence to have our next legislature pass a law barring wormy and infested fruits from the ! 1 markets and make It a misdemeanor to offer tho same fir sale' excepting for use in making by-products. 6 That we. the state horticultural society, so-ciety, will use ou influence for the erad-' erad-' Icatlon of all old, diseased and unproduct- s ive fruit trees from the settlements of Utah, believing them to bo a menace to ., the horticultural and financial Interests of the state. 7 That, whoreas something over ?500 " lias been paid to promoters by the people of the state in, the rast two years for acreage in on nana and orange plantations planta-tions In .Mexico under tho guise of horticultural horti-cultural investments and tho end is not yet in sight foi the game goes merrily on, ami. whereas, this tremendous and constant drain cu our limited capital will surely have the effect of retarding the horticultural development of our own glorious glo-rious state uh!ch needs all the home capital and much more for its full growth that wo do olfer-a warning to our citizens against 'nvostninls in foreign concerns of a questionable character while the resources re-sources of our state nut so sorely in need j of capital for development, I Election of Officers. I President. James C, Duffin; vice- . , president, Moroni Mortcnsen, secre- I tary. J. H. Parry: executive com mitter, .lames G. Duffin, W. O. Knud-son. Knud-son. C. A. -HIckenlooper. It. S. Is'orthmp and Dr. K. D. Ball; county vice presidents. presi-dents. Davla, A. I). Miller, Syracuse; Boy. I Elder. J. P. Chnstensen, Brlgham City; Cache. Ncphl Martinoau. Logan; Weber, f P.oy Kasmussen: Salt Lake. .lames M. ! Fisher. Oalder's Station; Utah, It. D. Wadley. Pleasant Grove; Morgan, Joseph j K. Porter. Morgan City; Emery. J. J. i Hansen. Ferron: Millard, .Tames Anderson, 1 Oak City; Washington, Joseph T. Atkln, j St. George: Sanpete, Hans .T. Brown. Ml. I'leasnnt. Sevier. O- P. Washburn, Mon- i roe: Wasatch, W. G. Crook, Heber Cltv; Juan, Robert Bcngley. Nephl, and Carbon, Arthur W. lTorsley, Price, j John F. Moou. manager of the Grand i Junction Fruit Glowers' a-sociatioii, of ; Grand Junction, Colo., vas elected an i honorarv memlier. I'm j Praises Luther Burbanlc. I I'M .Tho socond day's proceedings opened B j. Mi "tvlth a paper on the "Xursery Man and s I 111 tho Fruit Grower," by Charles Smith, ' (oll manager of Smith Bro?.' Nursery nt Ceri- ! torville. Mr. Smith gave a vlgorous"and jr :K Interesting talk, showing the proper - I lection of trees to bo made by the s'U' nursei-yman and tho fruit grower., t P- A- Olx. manager of the Davis Coun- ; ty nureery at P.oj'. and M, B. Bowles j manager of the Utah Nursoo' compnnv ! of hall Lake City, followed with brief H j speeches. "Plant Breeding as Applied to Iforll- i '"ijlliire"' was discussi-d by Professor Wi- ': Hani Homer of Brlgham Young unlversltv ! j He showed what was being ilone bv the United Suitesi govcniment to Improve the Iilants ami railed attention to the splen-did splen-did results which had been attained bv Luther Burbanlc at his experiment farm . in tjanta Clara county. California, ,B IIonr' Crocket, assistant horticulturist j'H "f thu Agricultural eollegu atljogan, dis- iml use.ed the improvemonl of varieties of plants and showed that this could be done by the farmers themselves. j Dr. Cardiff of tho University or Utah spoke of the value to the grower of an H Individual experimental ground, upon fir . which new species could he produced. John V. Moore, manager of tho Grand Wm Junction PVul.t Growers' association of iKu Crojjd Junction. Colo., spoke for over an mm hour on the necesplty of organisation among th Inill growers, and wan fol-KH fol-KH lowed with the close-t attention, by all Kl . present. IT mentioned the splendid In- i tcrcst iiianlfeatod in tne convention and Ui- : the larger than ordinary attendance at such meetings In Colorado. "It lc nocessary to secure a good board of directors and not too many of them," .said Mr. Moore. "The manager should be el.jrled. not -because he Is a member of some church or particular clique, but. because be-cause he Is an efficient manager. He should he given free plav, and should Insist In-sist on carrying out his policies without being hampered by the Interference of tlto directors." The evening sessions were occupied with papers on "Tho Value of Parasites," by Dr. B. D. Ball, director of the experiment experi-ment station at Logan; "The Value of Pruning," by Lc Boy Marsh. Davis county coun-ty inspoctor. and "Industrial Education." by Dr. J. A. Wldtjioo. president of the Agricultural college at Logan. Dr. WIdteoe spoko of the large results re-sults which have been achieved from small beginnings during the four years that the society has been organ IjfittaHc declared that the way in which Qi'iE'a-tion Qi'iE'a-tion of the immense -.rea of fruit Kkf n Utah lc by educating and tnilnlniTmen who will go In the orchards and work to produce good fruit. 'You must do more than llslon," said Dr, Widtsoe. "You must go out Into the orchards and put Into operatloirthe things .which nr told you at these c&nventlons. As regards education, wo must consider what Is the right kind. TOduenlion has grown, with the needs of the communltv and It is now necosan.ry that our children should be educated to be farmers and farmers' wives If they are to take, the proper part in developing the great agricultural agri-cultural resources of the State." |