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Show m UTAH FRUIT GROWERS MEET. H The fifth annual convention of the j, Utah State Horticultural Society was if held in the Armory Hall,, Salt Lake I City, a few weeks ago. This was the I best attended and most instructive f meeting the society has yet held. jP At the first session President James if G. Duffin of) Provo, gave a sumanary I - of what the iocicV had accomplished I; in the past) and -'what he thought I- should be accomplished in the fu- fer, -turc. He reviewed the record of the Mm horticultural 'interests of the state, Wf and pointed out some mistakes which should be icme&icd, and also gave L . some statistics .that were exceedingly m interesting. 1 President' Duffin stated that up to 1896, when the first horticultural j .board was appointed' by Governor I Hebcr M.' Wells, not to exceed ten I' solid cars of fresh fruit had been I shipped out of the state. During the If season of 1908, more than 1,200 cars if were shipped, besides a great quantity v that was sent by express. He csti- ) mated! from the amount of planting "' which is being done and from the present orchard acreage, that with- in' a very few ycaVs, Utah will be shipping 5,000 cars of fruit catch year. i ''President Duffin spoke heartily in favor of thejorganization of farmers 1 and fruit-growers lor marketing pro- ducts. He also pointed out the great bencfitsthe farmers and fruit-grow- i crs derived from the experiment sta- ' tionand the Agricultural College. He said one of the great problems "t , I to be studied in Utah was how to , ' turn into profit the present waste In ( . the ordhards. He said more cannar- ics were needed, as well as industries of that nature. . 1 ... Following the president's talk, Dr. E. D, Ball,, director of the Utah Ex- i.eriment Station, read! a paper on, "Docs Arsenical Spraying Injure f Fruit Trees?" In this paper Dr. Ball took exceptions to the opinions of the k Colorado Experiment Station, which has just published the belief that IT many fruit trees in. Colorado had 1 k . died of arsenical poisoning. Dr. 3 all 1 said thousands of trees have died in wb Utah and surrounding states Under t r conditions apparently similar to those 1 V described by the Colorado station, k and in many cases these trees have U never been sprayed. Dr, Ball stated that from his observation ob-servation he believed the most common com-mon causes of the dying of apple trees in t'hc inter-mountain region is the rise of the ground, water charged With alkali, thus choking arid killing the rootsof the trees! He said many of the trees arc dying frorm "collar rot," whicli manifests itself in the decay of the bark on the trunk of tho troc -near the ground. This disoasc, he said, was diuc fo an unknown dis- ease; In some cases, Dr. Ball said, (Continued on page 14.) - . to time. IF being the object oi this lav to protect the consumer of food .products against fraudulent, unwhole- V some and adulterated food; and ior the promotion and mnintain- ane'e of the public health and safety, and it shall be tlve duty of this bureau to promote improvements in dairy J?;" and food products, andi educate the - prodi"cr in the care of all dairy and food product's and their economical . production. ( J Sec- 3. - Any person violating any 1 provision of (his act or any rule or ; regulation of the dairy and food bu reau shall be guilty of a misdemcan- or, and upon( conviction thereof shall be fined in (any' sum not less than X $25 nor more than $200. U11 Sec. i. For the purpose of carry- Uj ing into effect the provisions of this xf act, there is hereby appropriated out of the state treasury the sum of $2,750 for the fiscal year of 1909, mid $2,750 for the fiscal year of 1910, 1 oV so much thereof as' may be ncc- 4, cssary. Said payments, to be made as provided by statute. |