OCR Text |
Show ONE-FIFTH CROP OF SALT LAKE COliilTY PEACHES IS SAVED Bat Planting! Surpasses All Records, According to Inspector Stay. The heaviest planting ever done in Bait Lake county in a single spring was done, thi year, according to the monthly report of J. C. 8tay, eounty horticultural inspector. A total of 89,-M 89,-M trees was planted, averaging 100 tree to the aer or 89.64 acres planted. plant-ed. The planting was as follows: Apple Ap-ple trees, 58,86; peach, 20,880; pear, 12,84.3; sweet cherries, 2707; sour cherries, cher-ries, 18,781; plums and prunes, 2182; apricot.' 428; and about twenty acres of small fruit. - Daring the month 81,278 nursery trees have been inspected and 1820 destroyed de-stroyed on aeeount of -root disease. A total of 277 orchard were visited and the owner were instructed in regard re-gard to pruning and spraying, and In some instance demonstrations given. Sixteen boxes and bale of tree were laced under" quarantine at the depot ba inspected on delivery The per cent of fruit crop is a follow: fol-low: , " Peaches, 20 per cent. Cherries, 23 per cent. , Apple, 70 per cent. Pears, 80 per cent. Apricots, 8 per cent. Plum. 88 per cent. ; Strawberries, 78 per eent. Raspberries, 100 per eent. Oooseberries, 100 per cent. Currants, 100 per eent. Some localities are much better than other, according to th report, this being the average of the eounty. During Dur-ing the month a earload-of apple wu shipped in from Watsonville, CsL, containing con-taining 700 boxes, and three local shipments, containing eighty-nine boxes, were received. |