| Show presidents ANNUAL ADDRESS it Is a pleasure to see so many enthusiastic thusia thus lastic here today and to hear the many good words said of and to the fruit growers who are here assembled it Is to be earnestly hoped that every one of you will be both interested and bene fitted during your attendance at our annual horticultural convention it is truo true that many ot of the fruit growers have met with serious obstacles and disappointments during the year past and it Is also true that some of those difficulties and disappointments could have been to some extent at least avoided thit that is one of the he main objects of our horticultural ti society viz to discuss such obstacles and partial failures and disappointments that we may have met with in the past to point outs out it possible the best course to pursue in every line ot of our work to the end that satisfactory results may be obtained by the grower and that the splendid industry of horticulture may continue to develop throughout the state during the year 1910 there were produced in this state over worth of fruit and other horticultural products and the annual value of such products will vill increase at least ten fold within the next few years it must be apparent to every one that such large increases of hort horticultural cultural ral products will require better methods of production and handling the fruit and particularly better or improved methods of distribution and marketing it if the grower is to receive fair returns tor for his products there is a law that operates through all nature the law of the survival of the fittest the law applies with full force to the horticulturist and only those fruit growers can hope to permanently succeed who adopts correct or scientific principles and methods in their work I 1 desire to emphasize the statement or words permanently SUCCEEDS slipshod slip shod indifferent work will bring some sort of results for a while hut but ultimate failure is sure to result from such careless inefficient methods and work now as to some of the work done and also Te recommendations commendations op effort that needs to be made ORCHARD HEATING the continual menace and sometimes severe losses caused by freezing weather during the blooming period of fruits have caused many fruit growers to investigate the subject of frost prevention by the use of orchard heaters last season large numbers of orchard heaters both coal and oil burners were purchased and there is no doubt that in many cases the proper use of such heaters was the means of saving the crop we will perhaps be told that the whole subject of orchard beating is still in the experimental stage while that may be true I 1 believe that it has been amply proven that poss ospon of 0 sufficient heaters ana being prepared to use them it II necessary Is r the very best form of in lurance lo la which the fruit growers can invest it will no toiba bo be with a great deal if pleasure amt we will have the opportunity port unity to listen this evening to prot prof AL A 11 thiessen section director of tho the weather bureau for utah ile he n 1 II 11 explain how bow the weather bureau ran help the fruit growers in their efforts f 0 to fight the frost the daily forecasts and weather maps that are furnished dally daily by the weather bureau and printed by the salt lake dallies dailies have been and are of great value to the fruit grower grover especially ally LOCAL COLD STORAGE OF FRUIT A subject that has been given very little consideration up to the present la 13 that of cold storage of fruit that idea of storage by the grower of a part of his apple crop at least until market conditions are favorable Is entirely practicable and merits careful consideration by every grower groer nature has provided the utah grower with ideal conditions tor for the storage of winter apples viz A cool dry air during the autumn months experience has demonstrated that tho the first cost of 0 frost proof houses can sometimes be saved in a single season owing to the better market conditions that can be taken advantage of at any rate temporary storage and packing houses should be had by every grower had a severe october or november freeze occurred last fall similar to the one that struck nearly all parts of the country in the autumn of 1905 the losses to the growers in this valley talley would have been awful the time is not far distant when peach growers will adopt some or temporary storage system in cia handling of that crop it may be well to con consider siler briefly the crop and marketing conditions of 0 1910 the idea is prevalent that last years bruli fruit production throughout the country especially or of the peach and apple appie crop was so large that market requirements quire ments were more than supplied the low prices received by growers for their products as compared with previous years gave occasion for such belief that such idea is not correct is proven by crop statistics the total fruit crop production of the r country was not any greater than that ot of the two or three years previous and in the case of the apple it was actually smaller than it has been tor for nearly a score of years if then the ory marketing conditions and prices that prevailed during 1910 were not due to overproduction over production what were the reasons for such conditions and what is the remedy one reason for the slump in prices received by the grower is that man many y dealers in fruit lost money in 1908 and 1009 1909 and consequently bought lightly in 1910 another reason advanced is that the scarcity or tightness of money prevented many operators from buying heavily for cold storage purposes such conditions would naturally cause a temporary oversupply over supply or glut especially in the large distributing centers faulty or inefficient distributions and marketing methods are to be charged however with the greater part ot of the unsatisfactory returns complained of experience has taught growers in other states notably C california all fornia and the northwest that in order to obtain satisfactory is results in marketing there must be operation cooperation co among growers and also among the various local fruit growers associations of a state let rie rae illustrate by one case what cooperation in distributing and selling can accomplish in 1908 the fruit growers of georgie alabama and south carolina produced a record breaking crop ot of over 6 carloads ot of peaches they had no do organized system for handling such enormous crops but depended upon the ordinary channels of 0 trade to take care of it the result was that much of the crop barely paid freight and a lot of work and and disappointment was about the only net returns to the grower before another year however they had organized the georgae fruit growers exchange and had their own selling representatives in every available market looking out for the growers welfare that year 1909 with a crop only 13 1 3 as largo large as for the year previous their net returns were larger it may be urged that the much better prices obtained in 1909 were due to the smaller crop that would be true had bad the crop in other states also been light As a matter of fact the total product of the early peach in the whole country was about the same in both years therefore the better returns one year over the other must have been due to the better marketing methods method employed what man has done man may do and I 1 can see no reason why success should not come to the utah grower in adopting methods that have brot marked success to others for sometime plans have been under consideration by the various fruit growers associations whereby they may operate cooperate co and market their products through a central organization that shall be controlled by the various associations and managed by utah men it Is to be hoped that the plan will be carried to it means much to the fruit industry of the state one other matter I 1 desire to present tor for your consideration before bringing this address to a close it has been apparent every year that only a few of the many problems that confront the grower groer can be discussed at our annual horticultural conventions tor for the want of time we could profit a great deal by more detailed instruction along horticultural lines and the organization of county horticultural societies would enable us to get more of such needed needed information such county organizations could be made useful and effective in many ways in behee of the executive commit committee toe I 1 hereby tender our thanks to the public press for the many effective notices that have been given this society to the railroads tor for courtesies extended to the commercial club of brigham city for the thorough preparations that have been made tor for our entertainment to every one who has contributed in any way to make this convention a success |
