Show BAD FRUIT IN GOOD gdud localities 0 OWNERS of orchards and particularly barly growers of fruit for the market will do well to pay attention to some remarks in regard to bad fruit in good local ties made in an article by william E smythe that appears iu in the latest number of the Irrig irrigation ahon age we reproduce a portion of them which we colmeta to the attention of our horti culturists after criticizing criticising critic ising laing exine th the poor policy of not engaging more extensively ensia in the cultivation of fruit be says but there in ia a still more serica seri a ariti clam to be made on many where fruit is already raised largely this is in the tact fact that it is ia raised with an utter disregard of the best beat varieties and the best beat methods and is often left undefended against the commonest and deadliest pests sta if this evil flourishes in one section f lion more in another perhaps its largest type may be seen in the lovely valleys of chah it is almost a proverb that a sound apple cannot be found in utah like all proverbs proverb sit it is not strictly true but like all proverbs there is a largo large element of truth underlying it all the hardy fruits and many of the more delicate varieties pre ere raised in abundance in the golden valleys that nestle under the peaks of the wasatch Wasat cb but with lew few exceptions this abundance brings no wealth to the cultivators and reflects no credit to the country it is a sort of drunken horticulture a waste of splendid resources and a travesty on what might be the fredn realon is that intelligent study was not used in the selection of varie varieties tiep or in cultivation or in the defence of the orchard against its natural enemies the result is a miserable apology for ighac should be a wonderfully prolific and substantially profitable horticulture it is a case where stupidity has nullified the bounty of god and set at naught the genius of man we never can have a great country until these fundamental errors are remedied and the irrigator understands der stands that not only by the sweat of his face shall dball he tam earn his bread but that by the exercise of his bialke he shall lay up a competence compe tance 11 in consequence of the backwardness of spring it is ie not tr too pa late now DOW to select and plant out good varieties of fruit trebe there are lots of old and worthless stocks that should be out down and new BOW baad laad nd valuable budded trees put in their places concerted and determined efforts to destroy the codlin moth and other pests would be another step in the way to I 1 IM improved roved fruit culture and it if this good goof work were continued awhile it would not be long before the reputation of utah would be restored lor producing the finest fruit in the world |