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Show County Ships Apple Crop The apple crop m Utah county j this year will bring in a total of $07,611.40, figures given Saturday by Chief Inspector H. V. Swen-son Swen-son show. The growers will net about 28 cents on the average this year lor their Jonathan apples and slightly less for such apples as winesaps and ganos. The apples have sold at about 55 cents a bushel; eight j cents went for packing and wash- ! ing; three cents for picking; 15 cents for baskets and one cent for hauling, leaving a net profit of 28 cents. Good Quality There have been 319 cars shipped out of the county so far and there are 6-15 bushels in a car, making a grand total of 205,755 bushels of apples of shipping grade in the county til is year. Most of these have been Jonathans. The quality of the apples this year has been unusually good, Mr. Swenson says. Especially is this true of the Jonathan variety, reputed to be beUer in Utah than in any other part of the nation. ' The Delicious apples have not j found as ready a market this year its the Jonathan, Mr. Swenson says. This is because in his opinion, the Jonathan is the better apple, the Delicious finding a better market in past years because of its relative rela-tive scarcity. Mr. Swenson predicted predict-ed SaLurday that the Jonathan would find a far better market in a few years when the Delicious orchards orch-ards of the county begin bearing more heavily. Earl Hutchings, Springville, is i Mr. Swenson's associate through j the full season as inspector, and in I addition, Glen Wadley, Howard Warnick, J. M. McFarlane and Abel Nielsen, Pleasant Grove; Ray Whiting, Springville and Harry Gore, Genola, have been part-time inspectors. Harry Beagley is. the part-time inspector for the Nephi district. The Nephi inspection has been under the direction of Mr, Swenson and his aides. |