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Show Horticulturist Lists Fruit Crop In County As 25 per cent Normal An estimated crop of twenty-five twenty-five per cent of normal production produc-tion for this county is the opinion given by Dr. A. L. Stark, U. S. A. C, extension horticulturist after af-ter an inspection tour of the Washington Wash-ington county orchards. "Because of the low temperatures tempera-tures of last winter many orchards or-chards on the lower situations will have no peaches at all this year and the trees in the more favorably favor-ably situated orchards will have only a partial crop. "In most sections of the state the trees having fruit are well-thinned well-thinned by the cold of last winter and the peaches should be larger than usual as a result Dr. Stark said. Most recent figures available from the Bureau of Agricultural Economics estimates the Utah peach crop this year as approximately approxi-mately 13 per cent of last year's production. The prediction for the yield this year is 72,000 bushel as compared with 554,000 production in 1936. The peach orchards at Fruita have more than 50 per cent of a normal crop this year. Those at St. George, Enterprise, Hurricane and surrounding vicinties are estimated esti-mated by Dr. Stark to have about 25 per cent as many peaches as were harvested last season. |