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Show Fruit G rowers To Make Tour Of California Utah State Agricultural college extension service will cooperate with the Utah Horticultural society socie-ty and its affiliated county units in sponsoring an educational and scenic tour through principal fruit regions of northern California for fruit growers of the state. The tour will commence August 13 at Salt Lake City and end at the same place the morning of August 25. The itinerary calls for visits to the leading fruit growing sections of California, including Auburn, Marysville, San Jose, Monterey, Tulare, and the Bur-bank Bur-bank farm at Santa Rose in the citrus regions and Fresno, Stockton, Stock-ton, Lodi, Placerville, and other leading fruit growing regions. Sections Sec-tions producing various kinds of deciduous fruits will be visited, including in-cluding the peach, cherry, apricot, plum, prune, apple, pear, and grape farms. In addition to the orchard visits, canneries, packing sheds, processing plants, storage plants, and cooperative marketing setups will also be inspected. Although educational features are foremost, the scenic and pleasure pleas-ure phase has not been overlooked, Dr. Arvil Stark, extension horticulturist, horti-culturist, said. The first night will be spent in Reno, and special trips will be made over the famed San Francisco bridges. Visits will also be made to Yosemite national park and Lake Tahoe. The estimated distance is 2.400 miles. Estimated costs will be $6 per day, including meals, transportation, trans-portation, and hotels. Fruit growers grow-ers are advised to make reservations reserva-tions with Dr. Arvil Stark, extension exten-sion horticulturist, Utah State Agricultural college, Logan, by August 1. Ladies are also invited to make the tour. |
