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Show TO MARKET THE-UTAH PEACH CROP. Utah Fruit Growers will adopt Colorado Colo-rado methods in handling the Utah fruit crop this .season, said J. Edward Taylor of the State Board of Horticulture Horti-culture yesterday. Mr. Howard G. Fletcher of the Grand Junction Fruit Growers' Association of Colorado, is here for Jie purpose of instructing the managers of the various Utah as-sonathns as-sonathns as to the methods used by 1 his association in marketing their I crops. A large portion of the Utah 1 peach crop will be handled through 1 the Grand Junction Association this I season and the growers of Utah will thus get th benefit of the experience 1 pf . this association in building up a I I j 'fcpuiation for thc GrariU Valley "Knits. The present high value of the fruit I lands in Western Goforado is -due t ... more to the efforts of this lassociation Tlian to any other one factor. This association has been able to obtain better prices for its growers than they could possibly obtain through any other source. This fact has been so thoroughly demonstrated to tlw growers through Grand Valley for the last few years that practically ail of them, have found it to their -advantage to ship their fruit through thio association. Co-operation among the growers is the only plan by which they will ever realize the market value of their fruit. There is no question but what if these same methods .ire adopted by the growers of Utah they also will realize for their better prices than ever before. The Grand Junction Junc-tion Association has consented In handle the car lot shipments of Utah fruit this season which is sure to prove a. great advantage to the Utah I growers. 4. Heretofore there has been no system sys-tem in the marketing of the Utah fruit. For this reason these growers .-' have never been able to realize prices which would make the growing of w " fruit profitable. Mr. John F. Moore, manager of the I ' association at Grand Junction made "., an extended trip over the different .fruit districts of Utah some time ago .with Mr. Taylor, rand together they were able to interest the different growers in the systems employed by the Grand Junction Association and j the growers were tall pleased with the j prospects of getting their fruit to market in a manner which lids proved such a success in Colorado. The Grand Junction Association (propose to place their own fruit pack- crs and inspectors in the Utah field as soon as the shipments start in order or-der to get the Utah fruit packed, graded and handled on a par with the shipments from Grand Junction Kand there is no question "but that the results to the growers will be entirely (satisfactory. m Mr. Fletcher will spend a week or ten days with the different association managers and growers posting them in the necessary preliminaries to be j employed this season. Facilities, sup- ! plies, records, etc., will all be placed in working order prior to the time whe lie shipments will move. About I i v the first of August Mr. Moore will make another visit to the different districts at which time growers meetings meet-ings will be held and all the plans, system and methods used will be explained ex-plained fully. The Utah growers arc fortunate in deed in having this opportunity to establish es-tablish methods for the marketing of their fruits which has made such a grand success of the fruit industry of western Colorado. Utah can gro.v just as fine fruit 'as any other distric1 and as soon as the growers realize the necessity of putting up a good attractive attrac-tive package, well graded, and of the proper maturity, then have it marketed market-ed in a systematic manner, there will be no question as to the profits ob taincd in this industry. |