Show TO DISPOSE OF FRUIT must have vigorous selling force and convert portion of crop into fruit products most serious problems which confront the fruit brokers of utah are those connected with the market ing of the crop and the future growth of the industry will depend upon his being able to get a reasonable profit from his labors production has been increasing very rapidly and will increase still fister during the next three or four sears when the recent nervy come into bearing therefore the efforts which sold the chop last year are entirely inadequate to meet future i conditions in marketing the fruit crop only one side of the business lias been seriously considered that of selling green fruit fruit growing is naturally beset with considerable hazard and without a reasonable assurance of a profitable market for the crop it becomes a gambling proposition instead of a business proposition it is the elimination of tins chance that the growers should seek for during the season lust passed utah produced more fruit than any other two sears in her history auly a very small proportion of fruit produced could be sold at home the conditions for the fruit crop throughout tho country will determine the which the fruit grower can make he must expect occasionally to aeo a crop in all the leading fruit sections of the united states such i season has just passed this is particularly true af apples and peaches our two leading fruit crops with no othar outlet than through the sale of green fruit it is not surprising that tho results of sales were disappointing and the waste at home tremendous had we been able to utilize a largo proportion of the waste either in canned or evaporated products the to the grower would have been quite different the canning industry has become an important commercial factor in the state but the efforts of the canners have been directed along the lino of canning tomatoes and other vegetables the canning of fruit ha been dono only in a ery limited ways high grade canned fruit products to the amount of a hundred cars are being imported into utah evera year where utah fruit of a quality 13 begging for a market tho same 19 true of the deed fruit industry the utah markets ne supplied largely from our annual importation amounts to about ten carb of dried peaches two cars of apricots and clifteen to twenty carloads of pruned growers bioni hae been in all the principal fruit growing sections of the state and they have done much toward improving tho packing and redeeming reputation as a shipper of green fruit how ever either hie present al will have to broaden their scope or kotlier organizations will have to bo formed to overcome the difficulties which confiant tins industry indu atry the salvation of the fruit growing industry of utah lies in the perfection of tho system of handling the output which include a vigorous vigo roua selling force on the green fruit market and the conversion of a portion of the crop into fruit products of various kinds J edward taylor in tho utah Fi irmer work on the santa clara bench cinal is being rus lied several con have been taken lor tho work which was started at the head of thy canali near shew i |