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Show tural exhibits at ihe county fair, and solicited the eoopent" the growers present at the meet PEACH CROP IS BELOWNORMAL Salt Lake county fruit growers grow-ers attended in good number a county fruit growers meeting at Murray Friday night for the purpose pur-pose of discussing the market situation and prospective production. pro-duction. While Utah has a large peach crop, estimated at between 600,-000 600,-000 and 700,000 bushels of peaches, peach-es, the national outlook is about j a two-thirds peach crop in the nation. The estimated national production this year is 42.450,000 bushels as compared with 66,000,-000 66,000,-000 bushels in 1942. This situation makes it apparent appar-ent that markets outside of Utah will establish prices for peaches this year. At the present time prices are ranging from $4.00 to $5.00 per bushel at the Grand Junction and Palisade peach growing areas in Colorado. Utah peach growers are planning plan-ning to ship a much larger proportion pro-portion of their crop to outside markets than normally. Growers present at the meeting meet-ing indicated that arrangements had been made for necessary labor la-bor in harvesting the crop in Salt Lake county; however, Mr. Martineau reDorted that a survey sur-vey of labor needs is being made among the growers at this time by Ezra Tobler, extension farm labor agent. Eric W. Dahl, president of the Salt Lake County Horticultural Society, announced that the so-ciety so-ciety plans to install horticul- |