Salt Lake Telegram | 1922-08-28 | Page 8 | Fruit Granding Benefit Shown

FRUIT GRADING jENEFITSHOU Merchant's Letter Says Need Is Proper Packing What thorough Inspection and standardising of fruits and vegetables will do for Utah is shown In a letter received by Edward T. Jones, secretary secre-tary of th stat board of sericulture, from the Hancock Brothers Fruit company of Bait Lake. Saya th letter: let-ter: "If th grower and shipper; will follow th Instructions you men In office ar trying to put through, our stat can be on of the greatest shipping ship-ping statea there la. All w need here la the proper packing and grading. We should hav an Inspector to se thst our produce I packed right. Th farmer will not do It." Replying to th letter. Secretary Jonea cite story In Th Telegram of Saturday which pertained to the Instructions given a meeting of growers of potatoes and which th department de-partment Indorses, saying: -The clipping from Th Telegram Is self explanatory and voices the desires of th department in trying to aid th farmer and plac a better pack on the market. I agre with you that It la hard to get th farmer to properly paca ana grade nie produce, out witn the shipper's cooperation and an educational edu-cational campaign along this line w can better conditions." In connection with this, four counties coun-ties In southern Utah hav decided to form a marketing aaoclatlon, th counties being Beaver, Millard, Iron and Washington, to be known a th "Southern Utah Marketing f association." associa-tion." At a meeting; held In TParowan last week Timothy Brownhlll wa appointed ap-pointed to get th necessary legal help to draft articles of Incorporation and bylaws and submit th aam to each community In th four counties for approval. In th meantime Mr. Brownhlll will visit California and will Investigate th mat hods of th several markstlng aeeoclatlona.