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Show Utah Fruit Crop Severely Damaged By Cold Weather Recent low temperatures have killed from 25 to 50 percent of th peach crop from Brigham City to sion horticulturist of the Utah, State Agricultural College, reports. Sweet cherries and apricots were also damaged but not enough to do serious damage to the crops. After making a survry, Dr. Stark states that the damage was spotted, spot-ted, northern Utah orchards being hit worst. Losses at Willard, North 1 Ogden, Roy, Provo, Pleasant View, ! Payson, Sprinville, and Mapleton were great but little damage was done on the Spanish Fork bench, j Growers may determine frost ! damage to their orchards by cut-, cut-, ting into the plump buds on their ' trees. If the bud is green through-' through-' out. it has not been affected. If it. shows a brown color or any evidence of brown, however, dam-a dam-a ce has been done", Dr. Stark ex-: ex-: plains. |