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Show CANNERIES. It is good news that some of the leading fruit-canning men of California are ready to enter the Utah field and establish factories here. At present Utah leads the world in the canning of tomatoes and peas, but fruit has been neglected. Special machinery iB required re-quired for the canning of fruit, and expert ex-pert knowledge of the business is essential. essen-tial. Whatever encouragement Utah can offer to the California men should be tendered at once. The marketing of fruit is a problem which changes from sea.-.on to season. When certain kinds of fruits are ttcan elsewhere in the country, it is possible to market all of Utah's production of this particular fruit at a profit. But many seasons have come upon us when we have been unable to market thousands thou-sands of tons of fruit. The canneries would provide a profitable demand for such fruit. The impossibility of holding hold-ing fruit for favorable price is the chief element of the marketing problem, but when canneries are built it will be possible pos-sible to hold back the fruit by changing its form. But the simple increasing of the demand that would result from the eHtablichment of canneries would bring profits to the fruit growers. There ii usually a way out of marketing market-ing dilemmas. A story is told of a New Kngland orehardif-t who had seen hi. fine a pples rot t ing upon the ground through several season, and who sought a means of selling them even when the market was bad. lie sent a representa tive to England and secured a market for his entire out pu t , and his apples are oejling on the Loudon market at 6 cents each, while the apples of hi. neighbors are still rotting on the ground. |