Show suggests fruits that promise good returns editor COUNT nug acir sir I 1 hae read with in the columns of the nn 4 the article on english walnut cul ture and in rny feelings have nothing to offer against the move but I 1 still have a heart full of interest for the development of 1 II 11 appears to me as it always has done that dixie should be receiving much revenue each veir for her wonderful fruits and I 1 dont see how this commercial the pi inting of english wil nuts could brine this needed rev denue to show why I 1 feel this div let me give some figures as his been done by mr batchelor and mr morris in the fira place the highest net returns per acre for walnuts is consider in connection with tins that you cultivate tape trees from 6 to 10 beirs before vou get returns consider also the cot co t of pl inting when you div 2 per tree winch amounts to per acre while vou could plant 5 acres of commercial peaches 01 ol the eime money or 3 acie of cherries or pears or almonds which I 1 think the follow ing figures will how to be of more value to the country and alao the grower experiments have shown us ohp price obtainable on the commercial market for peaches and other fruits I 1 dont speak of the tender neither the elberta but something tint we are absolutely sure in growing first the greensboro trees can be abstained at 8 per cent rate which means 12 per acre out of the experiments peri ments representing three years or the fruit of three years which was shipped over roads which I 1 trust you will never hive again in dixie the lowest price for my one case of 20 ibs was 1 75 your trees will bear good the air many of them putting out three aises this would figure 5 25 per tree biking per acre of trees you have three years to pick the peaches while the walnut is coming into bearing which means at the above rite the grower would take from ins acre of ground before the walnut would put on any fruit and the crop is almost as sure as is the walnut besides these figures employment could be furnished to hundreds of boys girls men and beims which would make conditions much more pleasant for the country in geneal the thought div come to you as to the market conditions remember aou arc in the most favored spot in the world for the growing of fruit production and your birly fruit will demand its price anywhere next the cherry the beat authority in the state gives us the that never would the dixie grower be compelled to tike less than per ib for lia cherries Figun ngon a safer aisis making the price trees in dixie after the ard 3rd ear will averlee 50 iba I 1 cherries this season from six ear old trees that averaged b but tike 50 ibs at this would make sa 50 per tree trees per acre would bield the grower 1050 you still have three airs the best of the walnut which would rive you from our acre of laud the pear is a sure crop in dixie and almost the onla spot where the blight does not destroy the trees there being so few produced in the country would alwis eio the dixie grower a good price iheke can be picked and shipped green ind bring the highest market price the ilmond is also in great demind and is also a bure crop in your pirt of the state the fruit industry never in the history of our country looked more discouraging than it does at the present to the northern grower of this state site in saving that hundreds of carloads of corn hercul peaches sold for less thin freight cli arges on the eastern birket 19 so heavy this season eliat thousands of bushels still liang frozen on the tree and train loads are at a standstill still on the cistern market that will not sell for shipping expenses thirty carloads cir loads were recently shipped from biegon and hood river into one city in idaho making it impossible for our own people to applean shipped to idaho doets I 1 speak of this to show the competition that the commercial fruit grower is facing in order tu market his crop it is so hard to get kimg prices for alio fruit produced that hundreds of orchards are being dug up many with the fruit still hinging on them the grower not taking the time to even pick it now the dixie grower corn paie in your mind our conditions hiag no competition to that of the grower eliat his the whole world to fight in marketing ins crop I 1 think the people of dixie should write aa one and commercialize on the fruits that will develop and make dixie famous and that will bring the revenue that will susann ind m iko life pleasant for you who have worked so hard in conclusion will suggest the pla ting of cherries greensboro peach bartlett Birt lett peir almond and figs in quantities for alie commercial market to bring about this desired condition garlind utah nov 18 1911 |