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Show NOWWE START ON 1 li CROP cherries aro ripol Tho big .cherry ' eat. another source of pride for netuot Orove. Is Just beginning. & cannery will probably finish rtnnlng strawberries oarly next week, I d tney then oxpect to bo swamped with cherries beforo tbowoek is up. Another week will see the raspberry ,on on In full wln. , CouDty ogrlculturo agent, J. P. I Welch when nuked about conditions l(the various crops stated: "Strawberries this year have brought more money thnn, any v'l itrawberry crop before'. H "And whllo strawberries aro still I bringing monoy to the grower, cher- rlM are ripening," Mr. Welch poin-I poin-I tei out "The first of tho cherry I trop will be on tho market beforo July 1, and at about the samo time I the raspberry crop will begin com- lag to ma.fcet. These two crops I done will bring thousands of dol-I dol-I Uri to growers of this vicinity. "The apricot next In ripening will be a smnll crop, when compared with other fruit yields. But hardly I will tho cherries disappear than the I peaches will come on, and this year Utah County will harvest the larg-I larg-I ett crop In Its history. Poach prices I will be higher than tho growers ex-I ex-I pectcd In tho face of Buch a large I yield, but this Is duo to the fact that ' I la many other peach sections of tho J country the yield is below normal, making for a higher price. 'Excepting the Jonathan the applo yield of this country will be good. Jonathans appear a little below the normal yield. "Wheat will go above the normal yield, and probably will total a half million bushels in tho county Tho vheat Rtand is excellent. Sugar beet crop will be good considering the curtailed acreage, but the price will not b as high as the growers had hoped for. s "I am very optimistic about the erops of this county this year. It's (tolng to bo a good year for tho farmers, far-mers, better than tho past two.'' |
