Show STUDENT LIFE 24 A H Snow of Brigham City shipped twelve carloads of peaches raised on seven acres of ground The fruit sold for $500 per carload the total then being $6000 worth of fruit from seven acres of land Mr Brown of Centerville has 140 cherry trees This year’s crop sold for $1400 so that-th- c trees averaged $10 each The prospects are certainly bright for the of Utah fruit-growe- rs To the fanner: How much did you get for your hogs Johji? John discreetly: Wa’al they didn’t bring me in so much as I thought they would Then after a moment’s pause: I thought they wouldn’t Mr Jardine the new assistant in agronomy had an enjoyable trip the past summer to the experimental fanns of the Station in different parts of the State his work taking him to Moab which is approximately near the southeastern part of the State lie also went to Bear Lake Co Idaho In the interests of the Station of course That Prof Hutt is a specialist along his line was recognized during the recent congress at Ogden when he was chosen to name and classify the various fruits exhibited there in competition for the W A Clark $500 loving cup What Utah can do horticultural-I- v was splendidly shown at Ogden recently in the finest exhibit of fruit ever seen in the West Mr Judd of the State Board of Horticulture brought up from St George a display w hich was especially creditable consisting of thirteen varieties of Utah-grow- n grapes several varie- ties of almonds and also a large amount of choice figs and pomegranates That Utah did not get the $500 prize was due to the fact that the apples from Moab were wormy and w’erc placed by mistake on the lower tier of the exhibit where the judges got hold of them' The result is only too well knowTn Commenting on Utah’s of the trophy one of the Salt Lake papers stated that to remedy the evil continuous spraywormy-appl- e ing must be done To offset the impression of that statement Profs Hutt and Ball put up an exhibit at the State Fair showing the efficacy of fewer yet thorough sprayings The test was made on the Providence orchard Two sprayings with Paris Green were made the firs: just after the blossoms had fal1 m and the second two wreeks later The result was that on an average tree with an average crop 88 pet cent of the apples were entirely free from the codling moth From this average tree were picked four bushels of apples saleable at $100 per bushel The ground is capable of raising 108 trees per acre so that one acre could produce $432 of apples The test was carried out on trees that last year wrere so overrun writh the codling-mot- h that no saleable apples were produced This test speaks worlds for the efficacy of proper spraying and has been considerably commented upon in the non-captu- re |