Show A 11 FEES ON PEACH OR DAY A W C in the deseret farmer peach day at brigham brought to light some interesting points and showed the progressive movement going on in that enterprising section A few years ago the practice of 0 present modern methods in fruit growing would have been scouted as impractical and visionary now that hat the light of i Is breaking the good people up upshere 7 here that is the wise 4 ones are hastening to do better and bet better oer still D reads pretty fine to see that 3 0 0 c cases ases of peaches were shipped out of brigham in on one e day this season also that teams were kept busy in a day to care tor for the local utah market some of the albertas El bertas went as fas faras boston the writer knows how good fruit is appreciated down ow in new england and can imag ahat I 1 a satisfaction it gave to the hustling market men there to see the rich freight broken out and distributed they used to depend upon new jersey and delaware tor for most of their peach supply and it was chiefly crawfords Craw fords in bell shaped baskets utah is entitled to swell up with honest pride at the thought ot of being called on to contribute to such a fastidious market right here a suggestion might be e offered though it may not be called for the fruit shipping business in utah though coming to goodly proportions is yet in its infancy we are seeing expanding markets we know we can increase the yield of crops now is a good time to plan for future organization and coo co o opera pera tion so a as to bring the best rl results let the packer be not rapacious let the grower be content with fair returns let both work together for the good of the industry and espee lally for the fame and advancement of utah the grower has enough to do to produce his crop and harvest it the packer has his peculiar facilities and system tor for handling the goods there should be no war but the closest kind of harmony between j all eltse e two wo industries now is a good time to work out the best method of OE establishing that harmony to go back to brigham shipments some of their stuff fetched 62 c th cjase ej cas ase e that amounts to nearly the car and even it if the growers do not net much over a third lf of this it Is better than raising sagebrush and jack rabbits which this same land not very long ago produced they had shipped up to one hundred carloads up to the date of peach day and there was good fruit still a coming the interesting feature about it all ail is that the growers are buying trees and more trees they also have learned to ts discriminate as to varieties of fruit and modes of culture fake nurserymen nurseryman nursery men with poor or diseased stock will not be tolerated clean culture and plenty of culture is the practice speaking ot of clean culture reminds us that it Is said by good au authority that no crop is so sensitive to clean culture as the peach elsewhere in this issue the necessity for substantial is discussed now when utah people learn to conserve their water supply as is lone done in california for instance we shall have greater acreage and more and iatter fruit to the acre proper pruning landfare and fare care will prolong the life of tb the peach plant fifty to one hundred percent over the fl period i formerly held as the limit dont ever think you will produce too much fruit the late lamented alwood brown the successful cherry grower of davis county used to declare that more and more was fruit being eaten and he believed that meat would be consumed less and less A prominent banker in salt lake city told the writer a tew few days since that where lie he used to eat pounds he now ate ounces only of meat fruit is by no means a mere appetizer nor Is it only a vehicle for attractive flavors to entertain the palate it is a food necessity and every time you supply good fruit to the consumer you are conferring a real benefit fruit juices aid in the elimination from the system of wastes and injurious accumulations even to the joints and the blood meat as generally eaten increases the load of objectionable material material the significance of mr browns statements lay in the fact that for many years lie he dealt in cattle and slaughtered a great deal tor for the trade let us proclaim the gospel of fr fruit 11 it for it Is good on show at brigham were cases of El bertas by Aless rs valentine these took first prize along side the two exhibits filling all th the space pace in one long row were cazes cases all but two albertas El bertas by W 0 knudson these took second prize many spectators thought the order should be reversed but the judges were supposed to know nothing of the identity of exhibitors and doubtless did their duty in good conscience anyway sir mr chudson captured more money in the otiler other classes and as so a little more than evened up the packing of the loi lot which took first prize was by placing the fruit on end and the box boxes s were garnished with leaves the other lot mentioned showed the fruit on its side and certainly made a royal display we would like to see both lots set out in old faneaull hall market and to hear the boston folk folh exclaim thereat one grower mr L 11 1 1 larsen is doing things up tip there it is impossible to mention all or even a few of the many advanced growers but what mr air larsen does is a good sample and worthy of imitation out of a 60 acre place he has 20 acres in oras high as tour four bushels to the tree as high as tour four bush bushels bu shells ells to the tree the whole averaging two and a half bushels the peaches paid is as high as one and a quarter cents a pound tor for unpacked fruit mr larsen said he might hae taken in more money to hake have done his own packing but this was a shorter cut A good deal ot of utah fruit Is finding its way up into the north country cu minneapolis has the credit of taking a good many peaches from Utah this very yeah year texas is the natural source ot of supply for that country but here again the utah product finh finds T i a good buyer it is true that it can hardly be called competition when we ship to the points mentioned as the time of respective ripening of crops may be and often is different but none the less is it a great good thing for utah that our fruit is in demand competition or not it is certain that these places can get plenty of fruit from southern points and that ours must be worthy in comparison or they would have none of it and it I 1 is s but let every grower resolve to maintain the high standard and improve upon it mr larsen does something else besides grow peaches he had tomatoes I 1 this year estimated to yield twenty five tons to the acre the canners paid flo 10 a ton in some cases roughly figured this makes an acre we say of california that they can afford expensive means to save water ater because their lands pay such high revenues Is not an acre large enough revenue to warrant high cultivation and cement water ditches and the matter with utah anyway she seems to be all right A new crop is coming to the front in utah it is that of concord grapes we believe it was mr griff of north ogden who demonstrated this at all events the acreage being planted to this desirable fruit is increasing ci it is a crop easily made and with diligence ana and care the insect enemies and diseases may be kept down there should be good strains of the variety selected for planting and the pruning and water supply adapted to the soil and ell climate should be carefully 4 studied many fine vineyards are spoiled or run at a loss because of mistakes and ignorance in this knowledge of adaptation of pruning and cultivation even in california the point has lately been urged in respect of the yield of a well known variety proper pruning greatly enhanced the yield sol soil climate and locality ral bulale W with ith grape culture hereafter it is to be peaches and concord grapes from brigham city and likewise from other good places many more would doubtless attend peach day it if they could be sure sire of reaching home by early evening the only return special train to salt lake city was advertised 10 leave at midnight and it really left brigham somewhat later than that T the e regular through train from the north due at p in did not lea leave ve brigham till nearly 9 and there I 1 i was a long wait at ogden it arrived at salt lake la ke at about midnight there would seem to be no reason why at the distance of salt lake city there should not be a through special certain to leave brigham on time and without a long wall wait I 1 at og ogden den so as to reach salt lake by early evening the people of brigham owe it to themselves ag as well as to their warm friends in other places to secure this arrangement the railroads would gain very much in increased attendance as it was the transportation accommodations were abominable this year |