Show fruits blush at touch the know utah letter issued by william II 11 child co 13 devoted to fruit growing in utah it follows do you know utah what sub tropical fruits are grow n in utah Pomegranate sand figs what 19 the maximum altitude of successful orchards in utah six thousand eight bundled feet whit percentile tige of the orchord area in utah has not begun bearing sixty one per cent whit his been the average price received by the raisers of box elder county for five years thirty one cents a cise whit proportion of former butali fruit crops his been used at home about one third how miny counties are shippers of fruit nine or ten fifty six per cent of the fruit lind in utah is devoted to raising of apples and 25 per cent to the production of peaches these are alie two big fruit crops of the state they are pre berred because of the success with which their cultivation 13 attended and the wide market that usually welcomes them in prominence is tho cherry crop five per cent of the orchard land is in this fruit and the quality of the product received official endorsement indorsement indor at the alaska pacific exposition at portland where the exhibit of utah cher ass as awarded first prize among numerous competitors small fruits including the various berry crops occupy 4 per cent of the fruit acreage pears 3 per cent plums and prunes 3 per cent apricots 2 per cent and grapes 1 percent given in acres the returns for 1912 placed in apples acres in peaches in cherries m fruits 1866 in pears 1362 m plums and prunes 1226 in apricots aso in grapes and in anre fruits and nuts 50 acres making acres among the fruits rare in this latitude are figs and dates and oranges have been attempted but with indifferent success and california grapes can be grown in almost all the valleys of the state almonds pecans and english walnuts do well in southwestern rutih for the list two years fruit trees have been set out at the rate of three quarters of a million a ear in rutih all kinds of or chirds are increasing but the percentage remains nearly tho sime with apples and pech cs in the leid in all that makes fruit def size color shipping quality and faivor the well tended orchards of utah challenge the world the rich red upon the check of the apple is literally snatched from the sunset for it is the swift chainge from warming sunshine to the busk air of the evening that puts the glow on the fruit the delicate tinting of the utah deiches comes from the sime supernal palette this is more than skin deep the tempering of the summer heat by the re firshing fic shing coolness of the nights into tile fabric of the fruit importing a flavor tint lingers in the memory and a that brings it fresh and firm to the table of the consumer Factor 1 others than altitude determine the levels at which fruit cm bo grown As a general thing it is said orchards in utah deteriorate above the altitude of feet yet are trees eliat at blat is alie highest level at which successful fruit raising is recorded in ho state |