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Show COUNTY SHIPS 456 CARLOADS 0FjR0DUCE Orem Is Largest Shipper With 73 Cars; Snow Had 52. Joint federal and etate grades were established on 457 carloads of fruit and vegetables shipped out of Utnh county from January 1 to December De-cember 1, according to the annual report compiled by C. J. Sorcnson, district agricultural inspector. Peaches head the list at 314 cars and apples second at 57. Pears come third at 40, with onions fourth at 25. Other clarifications are potatoes po-tatoes 14, cauliflower 3, lettuce 2 and carrots 1. Orem had the largest shipments with 73 cars during the season with Springville second with 64. Snow had 52 cars of peaches alone and Payson. had 43 cars in all. Provo comes fifteenth down the list with only 10 cars. The work done by the department during the year includes the following follow-ing items: grading and inspection of outgoing shipments, quarantine inspections, orchard inspections, spraying, inspection of nursery stock, seeds, insecticides, foods and hotels; control work on rodents, English Sparrows, grasshoppers, sugar beet army worms, web worms, potato betles, field Inspections, eradication of noxious weeks and miscellaneous work including meetings meet-ings and demonstrations. A total of of 502 lots of produce were inspected with the result that 62 lots were ordered resorted and 16 condemned. The inspection of 794 orchards totaling 6,284 acres showed that the leaf-roller pest had spread to practically prac-tically every orchard in the country except in the Elberta district which was free. The San Jose scale was found in only a few orchards, however. how-ever. Inspection of nursery stock shows that a total of 560,325 trees, shrubs and plants were shipped Into the county during the .year of which 1,346 plants were condemned. Of the young trees ready to plant, apples head the list at 12,152 with peaches ' second ';at '. 7,567. Grapes . were strong at 22,610 vines. . ' In addition to a vast amount of rodent and other pest control :'in which 1,200 pounds of poisoned bait ' was distributed' to 190 farms; a campaign wag waged against the noxious weeds such at white top and morning glory along public roads and railroads. Deomnstrations have played a big part In the effective work done by the department as follows: prnning trees, 57; spraying 30; bait mixing, 10 and grading demonstrations 40 It is estimated that nearly 1,200 farmers attended these demonstrations. demonstra-tions. The work done by the department under the direction of Mr. Sorenson, it is stated, is along those lines that are a direct benefit to the farmers and fruit growers' and is such that will maka for -better hand,Iing and growing of crops next year. . |