Show SUBURBAN SKETCH Holladay Citizen Sees Fruit Improvement HOLLADAY HOLLADAY George George B. B Andrus Andrus Andrus An- An drus who owns and operates an orchard here Monday predicted a better market for fruits due to the increased quality and size of the fruit being raised today The Improved flavor makes the product more palatable and Increases in increases increases In- In creases consumption he asserted The flavor size and texture of all fruits have been Improved by proper thinning cultivation and fertilization Fruit growers are eliminating old varieties and plantIng planting planting plant plant- ing new improved varieties 1 Peaches Twice as all Large The average run of peaches grown today Is twice as large as the average 32 years ears ago when I 1 first started raising peaches Some of the peaches I 1 raise now wel weigh h has as much as a pound each and the average is nearly a half haIt pound Mr Andrus was born in Holladay Holladay Holla- Holla day May 23 1881 and has lived Jived I here all his life except for one year spent In Summit co county nty and three years he served on n a mission to New Zealand for the L L. D. D S. S church He attended the old L. L D. D S. S university in Salt Lake City and later obtained a normal degree at atthe atthe atthe the University of Utah He taught school for three years at the old Twenty-eighth Twenty district school in Holladay Active Churchman He was a bishops bishop's counselor In Inthe inthe inthe the Holladay L. L D. D S. S ward for three years and served as bishop of the Marlon Marion L. L D. D S. S ward at Kamas for one year He has been beena a high councilman in the ward here for 23 years a counselor Inthe in inthe inthe the Holladay ward Young Mens Men's Mutual Improvement association and a member of the Granite L. L D. D S S. S stake M. M I. I A. A board for a number of years Mr Andrus was named president president president dent of the Dry Creek Irrigation company here eight years ago alter serving five years as vice president of the company He also aiso is president of the Salt Lake County County County Coun Coun- ty Horticultural society director in the Utah State Slate Horticultural society society society so so- member of the Salt SaIt Lake county planning board president of the board of supervisors of East Salt Lake county soil conservation district and a member of the state land use committee Twice married Mr Andrus has five children and one grandchild 4 I r 6 Ji f S SI 4 r. I Ir kf W GEORGE B. B n- n ANDRUS Raises bigger peaches |