Show On Fruit I It is well that the settlers I who are starting new homes homes' on the Uintah Reservation should realize now that the fruit industry industry industry in in- is an uncertain and haz haz- occupation everywhere and therefore they should not commit the mistake of devoting devoting devot devot- in ing too much laud land or money to orchard culture And by this we do not mean that fruit should not be planted on the Reservation on the contrary every homestead should contain con con- tam tain at least a small orchard and small fruits s should be set sel setout setout out liberally because they are easily taken care of and are usually certain to produce a crop But the devoting devoting- of extensive extensive extensive ex ex- bodies of land to commercial commercial com com- mercial orchards will we we believe believe believe be be- lieve prove prO to be bc a a mistake Even in the most successful growing fruit-growing regions of the thc country it is now realized that fruit fruit- growing fruit rowing can cau only be successfully successfully successfully suc suc- conducted as a part of and in connection with other diversified farming Putting Putting- their wholly in the fruit crop has been the cause of disastrous failures and to many farmers in inthe inthe inthe the valleys of Colorado and Utah and while we ve believe that hat this Reservation is IB better adapted to growing fruit-growing than many of the valleys in these states yet the uncertainty is sufficiently great to to justify caution c However every homestead should have a small orchard and an ample garden arden set act to small fruits That the latter will Vill do splendidly here is tain Mr l J. J F. F Babcock has hasa a patch of strawberries growing growing- nicely niceTy and now in bloom on his lots in Myton Grape vines ire are doing splendidly in I. I V. W. garden plat plat and and at Steve Wagoner's Yag s cosy town own home the other day The Chieftain Chieftain Chief- Chief tain lain scribe was shown a large patch of currant bushes planted plant plant- ed last spring now heavily loaded with bloom |