Show FOOD WASTE according to the state crop pest peat inspector utah lias jas wasted more than a million dollars worth of food products during the past season some of 0 this waste came through the ravages of 0 crop pets and a big part of it came through the inability ot of the farmers and horticulturists to harvest their potatoes and apples before the f frost ros t came this is a appalling condition and yet the harvesting part of it could easily have been taken care ot 0 it if our school boys and girls had dam t abeen been drafted into the fields and orchards shen hon the products were ready toy to be gathered the loss in apples alone is estimated at and to this sum the dear bear riar valley contributes quite a considerable amount for there were thousands of bushels of capples apples hanging on the lie trees when the last killing frost came along every fall the same con concilion diLion maintains and until the school law lav is so changed to make it possible tor for the children to help during harvest this his state will continue to suffer food waste it should be remembered that food wast ed cd can never he be regal nc while an education retarded by a tew few weeks can be made up we have boasted about our educational standing until we are forgetting some ot of the essentials ot life and happiness and we throw away hundreds of thousands of dollars every year simply because we dont want to keep the boys and girls out of school for a couple or three weeks the thought sometimes forces itself into the mind are we not overstraining a point in the matter of educating ng our young people |