Show FRUIT GROWING SALT LAKE CITY utah nov 6 1896 your article of november ath ablat fruit raising to is very much to the point especially when we consider the thou ends of dollars sent yearly to california oregon and michigan for fruit money that cluad easily be kept nere here but as we have no system about our fruit ral raising sing neither jp ip regard to the planting of toe me tight right kind of trees in the right klod kind of soil moll nor the selection of proper localities for different varieties and no system in marketing what lutle little fruit we do raise we have either cither a glut on OD the market or a famine it to ia more or less legs discouraging especially when the want of capital to plant and skill to take care of young orchards to la added to the list of difficulties at the same time that fruit raising can be made highly remunerative here bore we have only to witness the effects of mr jobo job a boyce of Gr graulty Graul autte te ferdinand hintze and jacob jensen jenann of big cottonwood cotton wood james young J king and mr deb benham of east mill creek mr longdon Lion geon of pleasant view mr sul vel stud and james jamea russel of upper mill mil creek hollow and bishop bennion ol of north jordan these and many others scattered through salt lake county and through the state prove that a high grade of success Is possible ble in fruit culture where brains brain capital and energy sie aie combined all the bench from camp douglas to the point of the mountain Mount aiu could be one continuous orchard supplying all the wants of salt lake city aud and much more lor for exportation the graat trouble to Is the people do not know what to plant As a general thing the upper benches are especially so adapted apted for stone such as peaches etc the lower eds lowert are best suited for apples and p peare a re though these will grow on the upper lunda nearly as aa well it if they can got get water enough next is the question of varieties of 01 fruit aud how bow to take oars care of it there Is where I 1 believe the main work ol of the county fruit tree lue inspector pealor should come in by going aronno in the different wards and holding meetings with the people telline I 1 ng them in simple 1 language what their locality Is best beet adapted for and what varieties would be the most profitable to plant it costs just as much oars and trouble to raise a bushel or of sarun apples worth 40 cents a bushel or a bushel of winter Pe pearmon armin worth 60 cents as it does to raise a bushel ol of ben davis worth a dollar or a bushel of vine sap worth or a bushel of roman ber beauty auty worth 2 the same pitr pears bar alett kaifler and winter nellie are the beat but all localities are not adapted for them io ID small fruits it does not cost any more to raise a quart of jessies or booti river strawberries straw oer rles worth from to a quart than it does to rame raise a quart of Moo grele worth from so 80 to tofu av a quart bo 60 it is all ail through the list As tor for taking care of the fruit fruer when oar car loads of nursery bauby infected with ulysease in its worst form can be imported to utah and distributed broa doat over the state without lot let or hindrance scattering disease and ruin the law jaw or the inspection must most be woefully deficient in regard to 10 spraying thieu points are necessary first the me spray must be strong enough to accomplish its purpose abud nut not so strong that it injures we the foliage or fruit second it mat must be applied so it wets the tree fruit and leaves all over but not so that it washes or runs third it must be applied at the proper time this last just is especially essential the simplest mina ona understand that when a worm is ie hatched batched and has bai bored KB its way luab an apple or pear it li Is protected and all the spraying possible will neltha kill it nor cause dauee it to crawl out and commit suicide by eating poison therefore this last polut point la is the most moat important of all ail and it to la there where nearly all fall from two years work as deputy inspector I 1 am lully fully convinced that the last jaet blossom scarcely show signs of wilting before the first spray be on ois the tree and also that loudon purple should be discarded and only paris green used respectfully JOHN P |