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Show I I HORTICULTURE H SEVIER VALLEY A FRUIT SEC- H TION. H We believe the Sevier valley, this H season, will grow a larger percentage H of fruit than any section in Utah, the H Colorado slope excepted. When the H Farmers' Institute car was in Sevier H valley, we made life miserable for the B poor unfortunate who had charge of H the horticultural branch. All because H he had the shameless and calloused H nerve to tell us this valley is a vcri- M table Eden for growing any kind of fl fruit except pomegranites, baboons H and constrictors'. Wc told him-it is so H frigid here that even an Eskimo H would get cold feet and several in- Y' stancs were related wherein polar m bears had been fonud dead, frozen B to death while trying to steal apples m from some of oun orchards. One M farmer said he had thought some of 1 making a lake where his orchard H stood and go into the seal raising H business. To all of which the horticul- H' turist plainly hinted that he certainly H believed we lied. With this issue of H the Sun we want to confess that we H did lie, and the next time the institute H' car. visits this valley, we will believe H' anything its managers tell us. Be- H cause, Richfield trees are going to bo m burdened with a bountiful crop of ap- H pies' and plums. Most other towns- in oevtur county wni raise mute uics than the people can use. Vvc, know one orchard at JMonkcytown that from appearances should produce six or seven sev-en thousand bushels of apples. Time .county will raise at least a 75 per cent crop of apples, peaches and plums. It it too bad that wc haven't a thousand acres in commercial orchards. The time is surely coming, wc can sec .t in the not distant future, when the crops grown in the Sevier valley will range in this order:' Apples, berries-, peaches, butter, potatoes and sugar beets. Plant whatever you will, but first plant an orchard. Sevier Val- ly Sun. |