Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-01-14 | Page 14 | Horticulturists Open Convention

HORTICULTURISTS opENjpra Discuss Fruit By-products , Plan to Broaden Scope of Business. A discussion of tho fruit by products auest on led by J C Holt manager of le fruitgrowers exchange at Eugene Ore yesterday was the feature of the open ng day of the eleventh annual con ention of the Uta S ate Hort cultural sociotj Three sess ons were he d morn ng noon and even ng at tho Com mer clal club Morning and afternoon ses s ons are scl eduled for today and it Is posslb e that an even ng session wiU be 1 e d in case other bus ness crowds the annual election out of the dayUght meet ngs. D F Collett former secretary of the Commercial club n ade the address of welcome and fe H Clay newly appointed secretary of the Commercial club wel . con ed the soc e y on bel a f of the C ub ! P es dent J S Page Jr of Payson pre sided and dell ered the p es dent s annua i address He gave interesting facts and f gu es with reference to the fruit Indus tr of the sta e and made epecal men tion of the efforts of the Commercial club to give pub c ty to Utah fru t A con ser at ve es imate he said shows that the s ate has 43 C60 ac es of fruit w th a valuat on of $17 466 000 the trees alone representing approximate y $6 648 000 He urged a c oeer co operat on Of the fru t growe s and emphas zed the importance of car ng for fru t by products Fo ow ng the report of Secretary W H. Homer J and the reports of the standing committees Pres dent Page , named a comm ttee on resolut ons a , committee on leg slatlon and a ominat ing comm ttee A. G Stoddard was named chairman of the reso ut ons com m tte Thomas B Page of Riverton ; member of the legis ature chairman of I he legis ative committee The nom nat ! ng ommittee Is composed of Dr Tj D Batche or John P Holmgren H H Thompson Dr S Gleason C A Hlcken ooper and Ra ph Poulton The chairman of the comm ttee will not be se ected until it mee s today At the afternoon session Mr Ho t to d briefly and clearly of the efforts made in Oregon to care for the fru t by prod ucts He offered no suggestions as to what shou d be done in Utah but con f ned his ta k to what had been accom p shed in O egon Dr L, D Batche or of the Agricultural co lege and a member of the commis slon appointed by Governor Spry to look into the fru t Industry in ne ghboring states fol owed Mr Ho t witl a report of the f ndlngs of the coram ss on The Feport was not encourag ng and when taken to task later Dr Batchelor said that It was not the intent on to d s cou age the estab shment of canner es and evaporatirg p ants in Utah but rather to put the obstac es to be over come befo e the fru tgrowers so that they might I now how to proceed C M Smi h of Centervl e the other member of the spec a commiss on fo owed Dr Batchelor and d scussed the question from va ious ang es The d scuss on was cont nued at las night s sess on led by Dr S G eason of Kaysv e Dr G eason is manufacturing grape ju ce and re ated some experiences. L C Michener of H Usboro Ore pro prietor of two extens ve evaporat ng pants a so spoke and ar ous ot er Utah fruitgrowers participated in a gen e a d scuss on The sess on this morning will begin at 10 30 instead of 10 o c ock