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Show - Fruit Crops j Notwithstanding the early frosts the fruit crop throughout the state will be ( ! considerably larger than in 1910. A ; very large yield of peaches is expected, , j while apples and pears will be about the ; same as in 1910. ! In Emery county the fruit crop will not be so heavy, and in Utah county it is not so good as it was last year, but j the small fruit crop was good this year. Farmers are gradually overcoming the obstacles of the fruit farm. Some very handy devices have been developed which will battle with the frost successfully. success-fully. In some places oil lights are used. They are hung in the trees and as the frost rises the little thermometer, thermom-eter, working by electricity, rings a little bell which gives the signal for the farmer to light his lamps. Pretty soon all that will be necessary will be to push a button and light the lamps. In other places they use the fire pots, but they require much more labor and do not give as good results. Another device is to make the blossoms blos-soms come out later in the spring by putting ice about the trunk of the tree, which of course sets the fruit back long enough to miss the early frosts. Utah is destined to become one of the greatest fruit regions of the west, and as the western farmer develops in education edu-cation the better and larger crops he will raise. What is true of fruit raising rais-ing is true of every branch of the farmers farm-ers occupation. |