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Show OPPORTUNITIES IN CHERRY RAISING Utah's fruit industry is rapidly coming com-ing to the front in the intermountain region. It has taken an added impetus im-petus this past year and bids fair to exceed all state records.' While fruit growers and packers are stressing plantings of all kinds, some special stress has been made of late by the state for a greater planting of cherries especially sour cherries. There is an excellent opportunity for this industry, according to Professor Pro-fessor Coe of the Utah Agricultural college. Sour cherries do very well, and there is no reason why they should not become an integral part of our fruit industry. The Craig Canning company of Ogden writes that ten carloads of sour cherries were shipped in from Idaho last year, and these together with the Utah yield .supplied 3200 commercial cases. This company reports that it could safely pack and sell 40,000 cases if the cherries could be secured. No doubt other packing plants are similiarly concerned and can use many more sour cherries. According to canners these cherries are in great demand in California where cherry trees are very limited, and the pacific coast is demanding much more than the northwestern states can supply. The middle western west-ern states are just feeling their way in the cherry industry, but that section is confronted with a disease not known in Utah and makes sour cherry planting plant-ing that much more desirable. |