Springville Herald | 1946-09-05 | Page 3 | Harvest of Utah Fruit Now On

'HARVEST OF UTAH ' FRUIT NOW ON Utah housewives are trying to get their canning done with, sugar sug-ar from some source or another and home-grown peaches, plums, berries and early apples are now flooding local markets. Prices are down somewhat from a year ago, however, late strawberries straw-berries continue to arrive at the big public market place on Salt Lake City's Southwest Temple and sell for $3.00 a case. Watermelons Water-melons are going at three cents a pound, cantaloupes from $1 to $2 a crate. Peaches are selling for from $1 to ?2.50 per lug, and Bartlett pears at $3.50 per bushel. Peaches appear to be pleantiful and are of a better than usual grade; Utah cantaloupes never had finer flavor. In the meantime, the U. S. Department De-partment of Agriculture has stoutly stout-ly denied Gov. Maw's request for extra canning sugar for Utah housewives. "There is a world shortage of 7,500,000 tons of sugar," sug-ar," the Department informed the governor.