| Show suggestions ON FRUIT GROWING SALT BAIT LAKE CITY feb I 1 would like to make a few mug 90 a sion in your valuable columns colum nip it if it would not be trespassing tres passing too much on the cultivation of fruit trees as aa there seems to be a growing interest through obear fair territory on the treatment treat munt mont of various fruit trees it to is true god has blessed us with a bood abood climate beautiful mountain streams for irrigating too the beat of loamy soil and everything that la is adapted for fruit raising but I 1 am sorry to say eay those are not used to the best beat addan advantage tags by many of our citizens A few years ago utah was waa noted for her fine fruits which for size mind and flavor hardly could be equalled equal equa led they found a ready sale in our home borne markets but such to is not the come case today we are foolish enough to allow california fruits to come into the be markets and take the place c f utah products chis Is wrong fr a self sustaining people as we claim to be now there la in a cause for sUtah thi etab fruit as aa a rule is a very poor quality the trees are not properly attended to it to s true our last legislature enacted a law to in regard to the spraying ol of fruit trees but this does not get at the root of this the evil As far as spraying Is concerned it to Is like throwing chaff against toe wind in wy my estimation besides wing being a poisonous and dangerous danger out experiment both to children ana cattle cattie not that I 1 wish to nad find lault fault with our oar legislators the trouble is with most odthe of the fruit trees they have been al lowed to grow never being pruned and the branches have been allowed to grow interwoven and mat matted tea together so ao that we the fruit has no chance to grow and probably the sun never shines on it IL the trees b have ave also been allo allowed wail to grow so old that some of them are half dead and full of anoker and the insects of all kinds kinas got get under the old bark and ano deposit their eggs there Is where the sprayer cannot reach them hem as they are protected by the bark in such oases cases you will find the only remedy la in to remove your old trees and burn them up until you do never will got get rid of your insects and replace the old trees by planting young ones on i and when you do plant young trees ido it in a systematic way dont crowd them too blots clots tog together ethek plant them so BO the sun un and air can got get around them an AB the spring to is advancing rapidly I 1 would advise my friends to tn take an interest in the fruit trees by pru brunning nning anem right away before the map lap commences to circulate through them Piu nning Is often done after the sop sap begins to circulate which is injurious to the tree and the fruit also the removing of young trees should be done as early as convenient and with care I 1 often notice young trees being removed just as they atie aie budding cut in leaf this injures the young tree by checking its growth for that season in my experience care should tie be exercised to in selecting the sui soil that hat Is best beet adapted for this the tree and also care should be taken in 10 laying out the young fibrous roots to see that the soil Is thoroughly worked amongst the roots rocta and made solid some home people have a habit babit of throwing water oo on the soil at the same time and aim at make a puddle of it A practical gard gardiner luer will not do that lor for the simple reason that the soil lays lay cold una and chills the young fibers and checks the growth of cf the tree and in some instance im tance the tree even dies now friends fruit raising la Is quite an industry and there should be more interest taken in it than there Is ie as there hare Is in wealth in it it if it Is properly looked after besides finding something lor for the young and rising men of utah todo to do lotus let us raise fruit that we would not be ashamed to ship to any market east or west we have everything every thing to in our favor the climate the soil the water the intelligence backbone and sinew WM J YARD |
