Show enforce spraying editor county orivs de dear deir ir sir will you please give room in your vilu valuable able paper for the fol following loiNing we wish to say that we aro iro in hearty with the sentiments expressed in your editorial of laba issue anti entitled make good showing 11 we believe that no better fruit can be produced in the world thin right here in dixie but our fruit industry is woefully neglected both by county officials and Ull ails as well we ha e been carella car elca a in this section of varieties lane tarie ties also in caring for them with railroad facilities we can put peaches on the salt lake market at leist lout SIK six weeks earlier than they get got them at present and of a far superior quality we would especially urge that tho tile laws on spraying be enforced in our county as it is an imposition on the min w n ho does all in his power to ab abate ite the codling moth when his neighbors do nothing in this direction we call to mind a visit of our county fruit inspector some four or five years ago and by the way that is the last visit we have been fan faired ored with by that official on that visit a certain orchard was wu visited and given thirty days to clear it well we suppose the thirty days have not expired as yet W in Sp springdale we flatter ourselves that we ne can cin raise as fino fine apples as almost any place in the state and to strengthen this statement we b hive tre only to refer to the exhibit mado made at the dixie fruit festival two years ago at st george and the comments made by mr J E etaylor taylor the state horticultural inspector which was lardy quoted throughout the state press but al alas alo o we are hampered with nith that little pest the moth or rather the laxity of in forcing the braying laws now the question with us la is are we going to get any assistance or benefits of the law or are we going to be compelled to dig our apple tree trees up the writer unter has gone to cons considerable idem ble extence getting spraying apparatus ote and would like to derive derie some benefit from same trust you will give space for the foregoing and keep the tile ball rolling FD F D GIFFORD Sp ringdale february 6 1911 |