| Show PLOW OUT A NEW FU furrow I 1 passing a certain prominent store the other day the writer noted some very tory attractive i california evaporated fruit packed iu in boxes holding some twenty or twenty five pounds each the exhibit included apples pears apricots and peaches the price of which he was informed was 20 cents for or the former and 26 cents per pound tor for the latter at the store counter utah used to have a reputation for fine fruit this product was wa deemed of full yet del delicate leate flavor virgin soil young trees and una unstinted tinted sun gave marketable value and reputation until rt ft was proven that even the these adent ages agea could not withstand with ignorance inattention and neglect dried fruit continued abundant but untrimmed freess tree neglect in cutting assorting packing and shipping coupled with california competition and care has hag so BO depressed the utah product that scores of carloads have been shipped out of late years for the paltry price of 4 cents per pound while store shelves anti and count ers ere filled with imported fruits have borne mute testimony teB to common ignorance of even the alphabet of fin social anci alor or social economy all the towns and settlements Bettle meota of utah have this season glowed again with the bloom of a possibly abundant abu auant fruit harvest bar vt apricot cherry pear peach and apple trees tram have vied witti with each other in succession in their wealth of promise and the query seems to suggest itself will the and raisers aalbers of fruit so ee far forget themselves again as aa to barter the bounties af pf providence at home for the ame bounty showered abow ered upon our neigh neighbors bors at a ratio of three to une Is it not time that some systematized effort were made to make the he most and best beet of home resources blessings blee einga and ancl surplus Is IB it possible to evaporate box ship and sell at prices obtained elsewhere will trimming and cultivating fruit trees pay and will proper cutting acing drying and curing by silly any method give again a reputation in the market tor for utah fruit will attention to style or packing be of value in ilk the line of success falling failing in satisfactory answer to the foregoing shall haphazard hap hazard individual growing and culture give way to cooperative fruit farms to la all desirable localities will there be pride enough in systematized company laboi either in drying canning or both to justify fruit farms with all the latest apalia oes ces of success or shall diversified production on the farm enhance the price and profit of wheat raising on the lines indicated by the enterprise of beet sugar culture as an illustration can public opinion and usage be educated to preference for the home product and general goli eral am be so stimulated as to export that alone which Is 18 at least the equal of thoughtful brains busy fingers and public enterprise elsewhere much of the past as far as pertains to these matters hns bra been libelous of the utah peoples people and some of her poverty and depression would vanish away at the dictation of intelligent effort in lines which are unjustly spoken of as of little moment momen t or aBa se mall affairs the day for wormy windfalls wind falls unripe and fly specked fruit is in gone oy by the the buyer will not look ik at is in mixed in pieces iio oes quarters lI halves alves in eluding pipe dust duet or other foreign substance no gunny sack back or unclean irregular packages will now fill the bill competition is in abroad and demanda clear clean bright uni uniform forin evaporated fruit in handy haddy ailed boxes labeled and guaranteed equal all through to sun sundry aundry dry fine fruit is mil taken economy even when fine the buyer gets all the tie advantage for one pound of fruit that rattles after drying would mean a low ila of over thirty per cent as aa compared compared with the well pro pared article the entire argument mout applies with equal force to other articles antly to that of potatoes for which yew ago utah had bad almost a national reputation exportation ana profit went hand in hand until it was concluded that this article was so ao fully indispensable that ahat anything would go if it if only omo came from the alio mountains and had bad the outline a potato now exportation is almost obsolete because became the market was trifled with all JAM and varieties were sacked together goodrich neshe a nook peerless ijane and early rose boe fraternized and to so sell by samples was aa impossible sil snow now in the proper branding and honesty leaah less hurry might he increased the he demand until utah would have had wealth in 1 and a reputation tor care thoroughness and reliability as tin unshaken shaken as an the hills the cho some same ordeal and the same failure follows folio we moat of our exports of prod produce aoe wheat outs oats barley lucern seed wool butter fruit are all discounted for lack of order enterprise and an d system such as pre prevails valis mainly among producers this is destructive suicidal impolitic unworthy of any community for their industry and sacrifice are to defeated on the tare threshold of every outer market and are even unsatisfactory at home where commodities are interchangeable and labur labor accepts produce in place of cash |
