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Show COUNTY LEADS IN APPLE YIELD 1921) Off Production Year; Higher Quality Pack and Hotter Grading Urged rtah county led tlu? entire stnte in jipph' production iii l!2l, iK'i'on-ini; iK'i'on-ini; Id n market, letter just issued by t In V. t. Bureau of iiKi'iculturnl t iMiuumics, department of ayricul-luri'. ayricul-luri'. Jn fact T'tah county has more than a third of the lieiu'inj; trees nf the stale, and produced over a third of the total crop, and normally normal-ly ships more care than the rest of the state combined, the bulletin stales. Alternate seasons of liht and heavy production have been the rule Tor the last four years, although the tendency toward alternate hearing is not noticeable in the production records for preceding years. The record-breaking crop of 1.;I00,U0U bushels in 1025 was followed by a lijjht. production of S17,OlK bushels in l!)2t;. Only 482 cars ere shipped in lifjii. as compared with IMV.i ears In l'.)25, the department statisticians declare. In normal years apples are the leading fruit crop of the state, the total farm value in 11)20' being estimated esti-mated at $(i54,00l, as compared with $1,170,000 in 1!)25. Los Angeles is by far the leading market for Utah apples, the report stales, the coast territory using 32S cars, or approximately 28 per cent of the state's total caiiot shipments in 11)25, and 215 ears, or 45 per cent, of the total shipments in 1920. Salt Lake City received 81,4(10 bushels bush-els of T'tah apples by rail and motor truck in 192(1, or more than one-tenth one-tenth of the state's total production. The season of 1026 was regarded as an unfavorable one for the apple ap-ple growers of this state. A small local crop coincided with a larg croi for the country as a whole, re- stilting in low prices and light returns. re-turns. The farm value of the Utah crop for 1920 is estimated at SO tents per bushel, as compared with 90 cents a bushel in 1926 and $1.23 in 1924. The I'tah apple industry is based on the Jonathan variety. "While no definite figures are vailable to show the proportion of plantings of this variety, it is known that they far exceed plantings of all other varieties varie-ties combined in the state, it is pointed nut. JVhilc- the 192C season was unusually un-usually discouraging to I'tali grow ers. due to a combination of light yields .and low prices, this fact in the matter of grading, Utah apples fall considerably short of Northwestern" North-western" apples. This is indicated by the higher prices commanded by the latter -where the to kinds are sold in competition." Apples are by far the most . important im-portant of the fruit and vegetable crops exported" from this .country, the value of apple exports for 1920 being placed tit $27,015,252. Between Be-tween eleven and twelve per cent of the commercial crop for both 1924 and 1925 was exported. Jlore than half of all exports go to the British Isles. The importance to the industry indus-try of the export trade, particularly particular-ly with the latter country, is thu,s readily seen. |
