Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-08-20 | Page 16 | Winds Destroy Fruit

WINDS DESTROY FRUIT Sand R dge Near Ogden Suffers From Loss of Sp end d Apple Crop Spec a to The Tribune OGDEN Aug 19 Not less than oO per cent and in some orchards SO per cent of the prospect ve app e crop in the sand ridge d st let southwest of Ogden was destroyed by the hea -y wind of a. few dass ago accord ng to J C Nye former city eommiss oner who owns a large tract of frul and nt at sect on Mr Nye con tends that the damage to app es was ex tens ve throughout the county but that the orcha ds located high on the sand ridge suffered more hea j than others The app e trees in the sand ridge d s trict we e hea 1 v loaded with fru t ac cord ng to Mr Nye but not too heav ly laden to pre ent good de elopmen and qua tj T e stems were not st ong enough to withstand the unueua lv heavj wind which swept up from the south for two hou s during" the afternoon The Ogden orchardlst asserts that aftr the wind had subs ded the ground in h s or chards as we l as most of the other orchards on the ridge was covered with fruit As the apples are too green to evaporate he savs the fruit is worthless except for hog feed Local fruit dea ers contend that better prices than usual will be obtained for the app e crop in th s sect on A representa Uve of the Utah Fruitgrowers assoc atlon has been nCormed that European, dea e a 1 a e p aced la ge orders w th Ame can ah ppe s and that if w 1 be necessa to draw heavil on the weBtern apple crop to f 11 the orders