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Show Big Apple Crop Coming This Fall t'ustern (lnnurs Will Hutu I'mirm1 dented Yield-Market Will Likely He Flooded and Only runcy lloved Apples Will Sell. Our readers will doubtlessly have read eastern dispatches telling of prospective pros-pective bumper apple crops tills year. 1 llecciit government reports confirm theso dispatches. In nearly nil of the apple growing scctloiiB In tho United States comes word of most unusual crops and IcttcrB received this week by the local fruit growers association again confirms tho report. This Information Is of considerable Interest to locnl apple growers as It gives an Idea of whnt tho murket will be In the fall. The eastern states aro close to tho markets and can Bell their fruit much chenper thnii wo can sell it nftcr pnying freight. Unless wo can produce u superior quality of fancy boxed npples something some-thing better than tho best that they produce wo will have no mnrket ut all. ' Growers in this region have to count off about fifty cents n box for boxing box-ing apples and shipping them to tho market. Hence tho growers who live near tho markets can sell for fifty cents where wo would have to churge n dollar. It la obvious that wo will Iruvo to turn out a better grndo of fruit than they do If wo aro going to soil it for twlco their price. Tho Utnh Agricultural Collego Experiment Ex-periment Stntlon hns recently IbsiiciI a pamphlet Circular No. 12 on tho subject or Thinning Apples, by Leon D. Hatcholor, thnt should provo of great lntorost In this connection, This pamphlet goes Into tho subject In grent dotnll giving llgurcs showing the IncrenBo In sl.o nnd iiuullty nud also tho lncrenso In tho next yenr's crop which results from thinning. Very doflnlto informntlon la given ns to tho best methods of thinning. . The Informntlon contnlned In Circular Cir-cular No. 12 is invnlunblc. Tho circular cir-cular should bo in tho hands of every ev-ery applo grower In the country. Cop-les Cop-les may bo had freo of charge front the Utnh Agriculture Collego Experiment Experi-ment Stntlon. Only thu most cureful and constant attention to detulls 011 the part of tin Pie growers will mnko possible the '!?dUnl(i" .?f ? Brnde of frut that wll sell In tho face or the keen competition com-petition wo uro Bint, to meet In the markets next (all. A relentless war must bo wngetl ugaliiHt Insect pests ', and plant discuses nud tho crop must bo thinned properly. If Uicho thlngH nro attonded to nnd the proper iimuiiut pr euro oxorclscd In Irrigating, pu-h. ( Ing nnd pncklng, wo need nut worry about tho murket, Then, is nlwnyH ii I market ror something better than the competitors huvc. |