| Show A SAVING TO FRUIT GROWERs UTA utan UTAH ir is a fruit growing region made eo so by the blessing of providence and the determined industry of the gl Mornion mormon people under wise direction until the codling moth and other insects appeared in our orchards our fruit was incomparable itis it is to be fervently hoped that the pests will be swept away and that utah will again stand in the front rank among the best beat fruit producing portions ot of the union how to dispose ef of fruit to the best beat advantage is one of the questions that Inte interest iest lest a great many of our readers dried fruit has decreased edv very much in price of late sandwith years and with our meagre facilities of preparing it for the market marlik it pays the producer but poorly the changes taking place in our climate to make the old method of sun drying precarious and unsatisfactory the recent rains followed by extreme cold quite uncommon at this season have spoiled hundreds of bushels of fruit exposed in the open air for drying T the lie lle changes chunges of temperature maee sun dried fruit unsightly and ana an consequently less valuable abre in the market anything which will aid in this matter will be a boon to thousands ads we notice that a new fruit dryer has been introduced into california which appears to be very successful it is called thu tho walters A model of this thia apparatus will be on ech exhibition ibitson at the coming territorial fair arid and the thing itself will be set sot up at mr H B Claw sons premises next april it is designe designed ct for neighbor hoods rather than single fruit growers and appears to be he the very thing needed in utah as it will materially cheapen the process of drying the following description of the apparatus ia Is from the los angeles mar war tar which strongly endorses it as a success among tile the fruit of that section the machine itself is about 12 feet highby 14 feet in length to the left in the enclosure is a furnace the heat of which can be regulated at plea piea pleasure bule suie the rest of on ther cher house or box Is fa dy by a large wheel wheal in which is inserted move moveable able abie trays which when the wheel Is turned adjust themselves so ao that the fruit cannot fall each tray in turn is loaded at the door from which the fruit is put in or taken out A boy 45 years old can handle one of the largest kind with ease case two the thermometers are placed inside and the heat is so regulated that there is very little di merence difference between the upper and lower one A lot of apertures aper apen tures at at the top and bottom insure a per perfect re ct system of draughts which regulate the currents of hot ho k air ic it is very perfect and the samples of fruit shown that were dried by the machine were beautiful and the fruit looked rich and toothsome and was free from th the e usual shrivelled shrivel led appearance |
