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Show MS MED GOODS- ARE STAFF OF LIFE George W. Goddard Declares De-clares Industry Becomes Vastly Important. SAVES FOOD SUPPLY Horticulturists Conclude Convention by Electing Officers. "Canned goods are today the nation's staff of life," was the keynote idea struck at yesterday's meeting of the Utah fruitgrowers at the Hotel Utah. George W. Goddard gavo voice to this sentiment in addressing the hortiOiiir-ists hortiOiiir-ists and continued by affirming tn!. our larger centers of population would 1 be on the edge of famine if it were not for canned vegetables and fruits; that canning has done more than any other industry to conservo the food products of the world and thus to reduce the cost of living; that the future development develop-ment of the canning industry in Utah depends on securing more reasonable freight rates, and that in the growing sections there is need of closer co-operation between the gTower and the packer. Among the most important recommendations recommen-dations made by tho committee on the president's address was that asking for an arrangement whereby the secretary of the association could be compensated compensat-ed for his services so that he could devote de-vote all his time to handling the details de-tails of the work of the society. A motion mo-tion was made by U. G. Miller that the society stand back of the committee in this endeavor to secure a paid secretary, secre-tary, and was unanimously passed, many offering donations as a means to this end. It was finally decided, however, how-ever, to instruct the legislative committee com-mittee to make a Tequest for- an appropriation appro-priation by the state legislature for a sufficient amount to maintain secretary secre-tary for the society. To See Sugar Makers. ! Further recommendation was made that a committee be appointed to cooperate co-operate with the sugar companies with a view to securing such concessions as will be necessary to success in the building build-ing of fruit product manufacturing plants. Malcolm McAllister of the Advertising Advertis-ing Service, Salt Lake, said that the fruit growers need faith in their products prod-ucts and ,urged the necessity of live-wire live-wire advertising as an effective means of competing with the fruit rnenVf California and the eastern states. Hv further declared that the home market should be assiduously developed if the largest profits were 'to be made. That the date of Arbor day shouldi chaDged from April 15 to April lTas the recommendation made by the legislative legis-lative committee in its annual report before the society. The reason for the proposed change was asserted to be that the development of plants was more favorable fa-vorable for planting two weeks earlier than at the present date of Arbor dav. The committee further recommended that the wormy fruit law should be made more specific for its better enforcement en-forcement and advised state control of horticultural inspection. Canning Solves Problem. "How to market our goods. This is the biggest question." 6aid U. G. Miller Mil-ler in his address before the society at the morning session. "Even if we pack perfectly, we have not solved the problem prob-lem of the market. The canning factory fac-tory is the best means to the solving of the marketing of goods." I Mr. -Miller gave warning against the promotor of canning factories, who, he said, is generally ignorant of the necessary neces-sary conditions which contribute to the success of a canning factory. He mentioned men-tioned one factory in the state, built at a cost of $8000 by a promoter, and declared de-clared it could have been built for $3000. He said that there was sufficient suf-ficient information available in the state for those contemplating the erection of factories without having recourse to any information outside. O. J. Stillwell snoke on "The Evaporation Evapo-ration of Fruits and Vegetables," in which he said that scientific evaporation evapora-tion differed from the ordinary drying of food, inasmuch as In the artificial process the cell walls of the fruit are not broken and all the food properties are retained. He further said that celery, cel-ery, spinach, cabbage, string beans and turnips were not well adapted for evaporating, evap-orating, because the excessive moisture contained in these vegetables evapora and little of the product is left to.. Officers Elected. "I have unbounded faith in the horticultural hor-ticultural business of the state. I feel no pessimism. The industry has not begun to be exploited as it will be in the future," said Dr. E. G. Peterson of tho Utah Agricultural college. Dr. Peterson spoke of the spiritual element in farming. He declarod that -there was altogether too much speculation specula-tion in the farming industry, that there is something more than business in farming, and that religious devotion to the interests of the farm gives men the desire to live a higher-ordered life. The aim should be to make the farmer a big, intellectual, cultured citizen. Heber F. Cutler spoke in the absence of T. E. Cutler on the relationship of the sugar to the fruit growing industry. Musical numbers were furnished on the Victrola by S. E. Adams and G. P. Child of the John Elliott Clark company, com-pany, agents for the Victor talking machine. ma-chine. After the report of the secretary was read, election of officers being tho next order of business, the following were elected: Dr. A. A. Stoddard, Spanish Fork, president; A. E. Lee, Granger, vice president; J. Edward Taylor, Salt Lake, secretary and treasurer. Executive committee Carl Isaacson, Isaac-son, Boxelder; J. T. Hall, Weber; D. F. Smith, Davis. |