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Show ANNUAL FRUIT TOUR TO RE HELD IN UTAH COUNTY AUGUST 28"" The Annual Fruit tour will be held in Utah county on Wednesday, Wednes-day, August 2 Sth, according to J. Erval Christensen, president of the State Fruit Growers association. asso-ciation. It is proposed to have it in this county this year and alternate it in other counties in the future years. Present plans call for those who attend to meet in Provo at 9:00 a.m. and then make a tour through the south end of the county and back to American Fork in the north nd -where the group will he dismissed. Those taking the tour will be shown a delicious orchard showing show-ing new graft's of a variety which will polonize a strainght block of delicious fruit. Then an orchard showing irrigation methods and prunning. Visit an old peach orchard, twenty-eight years old which has been severely sever-ely cut hack and shows new growth and is a fine fyp? of re-juvination. re-juvination. A n o t li e r orchard showing the use of hootch pots in timing the flight of codling moth and the use of chemically treated band-. Thinning of fruit nnd thinning of rn or"li.v.d where it has been planted tco Imnvily. A pear orchard on which the owner has been using z:nz chloride chlor-ide method of controling fire blight - very successfully. Then to a strawberry grower where he has a eeller next to the natch for pre-cooling th: henies before loading into trucks fo-- -hipmni.; Then the farm of Krval Chris-; (ensen showing the st-up for pcrnient trees and fiiillcrs. also a raspberry patch showing different dif-ferent varieties. Th-n to the farm of Walte- Holr'away. ;,n onion grower. Knowing the proper kind of storage building, then to a cabbage patch in the American Fork district. |
