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Show Fruit Graded By Machine First Done In Utah County PLEASANT GROVE, Sept. 6. i County Agent Joseph T. Welch has! done a great many good things forj Utah county and has stated far-reaching far-reaching work, but we feel that this last work he has helped to get under way is perhaps the most important im-portant in its possibilities of any- marketing "Utah's fruit. The word from the farthest distance dis-tance came from W. H. OUn, supervisor super-visor of agriculture for the D. & R. G. W. and formerly director of extension service for Idaho, who came from Denver for this demonstration. demon-stration. Because of his study of commercial fruit d'strlcts of the 1 route to Boise, Idaho, October 6, 1911.' VThis demonstrated years ago that the quality fruit is here. Get I behind this grade and this central packing association and you will 'carry on' the good work Frank Spencer so well started in advertising adver-tising Utah quality fruit. "This machine knows no man. It enables you to put -out uniform quality fruit and leave the culls at home, where they belong. Use them for butters, jellies, jams and other by-product uses. "This association is today doing the whole state of Utah a service that dollars and cents can not measure. It shall 'blaze the way' toward new trade channels for Utah fruit, enabling it to compete most favorably with 'Skookum' or any other brand out of the northwest on any market In the United States. "Mr. Chairman, you have started something. I predict that this grade and pack, when It reaches the trade, shall cause repeat orders to come to Manager Atwood like the calls Andy Gump claims to be receiving re-ceiving for his campaign buttons. Friends, 'Carry the message to Garcia.' I want to see the work of this association duplicated in every fruit district in Utah. Have a grade and pack worthy of a name and a label, then we can all get behind that work and say it was born this day and year, right here at Pleasant Grove." Following the talks, Manager Atwood At-wood served his guests a quantity of choice watermelon for which this district is famous. Friday was truly a "Red Letter Day" for Pleasant Grove and the demonstration demonstra-tion a success in every way. nation. County Agent Welch asked him to say a few words about this work-out. Part of which he said we have ; given to the Provo Herald readers, i "Friends, you are here to study a : commercial try-out this Pleasant Grove association is making of a , mechanical grader and sizer. Per-1 mit me to bring you a word of encouragement en-couragement from several years' study of the work of this and other machines in the northwest and the central packing house idea. , "This work up there has long since become an established practice. prac-tice. It has made it possible for the northwest to produce the quality and secure the reputation for the superior grade of pack that has put their fruit into every terminal market of the nation. Some years ago I learned County Agent Nelson Peet of Niagara county, New York, was getting a grade of apples on I the market that surpassed any I other New York apple. I went down and stayed about a week with him. "He was organizing his growers into central packing associations, telling them grade and pack comes first. Let us convince the trade we have the quality first and then the price will take care of itself. That started something. That Cataract brand of apples caused the formation forma-tion of the Western New York thing yet attempted. Working with the state farm bureau, bu-reau, the horticultural department of the Utah Agricultural college at Logan, the state and federal inspection inspec-tion officers, he has aided the Pleasant Grove Co-operative Marketing Mar-keting association to secure a power sizer and grader the very best one now in use in the northwest and put on a demonstration day that marks a new era in fruit marketing market-ing in Utah. . Plans have been under way for more than a year to make a real test of the community packing bouse gTade and pack at Pleasant Grove. President J. W. Gillman and Manager Frank Atwood were heartily in sympathy with County Agent Welch's ideas and at once took steps for the necessary packing pack-ing house with full approval of their board of directors. The necessary nec-essary packing house equipment was purchased and County Agent Welch told he could arrange for the demonstration day at peach packing time. Friday, September 5, was selected select-ed and county agents and fruit associations and districts from Box-elder Box-elder county to Juab county urged to come and attend this Pleasant Grove field day celebration. Every county agent from these counties and representative fruit men were present. When they saw this Cutler grader with almost human ingenuity separate out by weight the different sized peaches, saw this fruit handled far more carefully than the same work could be done hy hand, saw experienced packers put the finishing touches to each basket in the "Kinj Face" pack, with one accord they all said this grading will put our Utah fruit into the best markets of the nation. The work out, placed by the side of the jumble pack that has heretofore here-tofore been used, in one corner of the room, by Prof. T. H. Abell of , U. O. C. sent the value of this work home to everybody when they read the query over this exhibit of jnble versus true pack, "Which Would You Buy." After the whole delegation had I been given full opportunity to . study the work of the grader, oper-i oper-i ated under the most efficient crews Manager Atwood has employed. i'with Demonstrator Van Wyke of f I thn Pnrflnnrl nlnnt sunervisine. Apple Exchange and Nelson Peet became its manager and he has led them to apple marketing success. I "You know and I know you can and do produce the quality the 1 market wants right here in Utah county. I have visited the apple regions of the whole northwest, ! those of New York, Ohio, Illinois, the Ozarks, of our whole intermoun-tain intermoun-tain region. Permit me to say that here at the foot of Utah's grandest mountain, Mt. Tlmpanogos, is a soil and climate that puts color into your fruit and gives it a most desirable flavor and size equal to that grown anywhere. Frank Spencer, your neighbor, demonstrated demon-strated that years ago to the president presi-dent of the United States. "When the present chief justice, W. H. Taft was our nation's executive execu-tive he was, one year, a guest of the Utah fair management. When the I president's train went out of Salt Lake it had on board one of Frank County Agent Welch as master of ceremonies, called on representative fruit men and leaders for frank expressions as to the value to TJtah of this work. I President Chipman of Alpine stake. County Agent Leader Owen I of the TJ. A. C, State Inspector Heber J. Webb, Federal Inspector F. J. Baehler, Prof. W. II. Homer and others spoke most earnestly in favor of this plan of putting up and marketing Utah fruit. M. P. Brown of Ogden, vice president pres-ident of the state farm bureau, gave a short outline of how this all came about and assured those present pres-ent that it would go a long way toward solving the problem of Spencer's boxes of superior Jonathans Jona-thans that had won sweepstakes at the fair. Listen to the commenda-Tion commenda-Tion of the president of the United j States on those apples: J " 'Mr. Frank Spencer, Jr., Provo, Utah. " 'My Dear Mr. Spencer The president requests me to thank you gratefully for your courtesy in pre-in pre-in Salt Lake yesterday. He hns never eaten apples that had a better flavor and has never seen apples that had a better color. He enjoyed enjoy-ed his visit to the Utah state fair immensely. " 'Sincerely yours, " 'CHAS. D. HILLIS. " 'Secretary to the President. En |
