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Show H PEAR BLIGHT CONQUERED. H An orchard on Canyon ro.ul is proving Hint pear blight can ha H conquered There is an acre of trees where (ho blighr was so severe that there was little or no fr.iifc obtained therefrom up to two years nao Wherever blight was detected on a limb of a tree, the pruning knife and saw wre employed. That mctliod of treatment has proved H successful. This year a bounteous crop of large, luscious Bartlctt pears will be taken from this acre of fruit trees. . fT , r , M Prior to the introduction of the blight, this part pi Utah had H the finest pears in the United States and the pear orchards were of great value. Then came I he destruction wrought by the disea.se and H the uprooting of nere after acre of what had been beautiful, produc- H tivo trees. . H AVeber countv orchardists would be enriched thousands oL dol- M lars hy ihc mere "demonstration thai pear blight is no longer to be H feared and that productive and profitable pear orchards can be re- H stored on the land that once brought forth the most delicious fruit. |