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Show CJO FRUITCROPWORTH ILUONJOLliiRS SALT LAKE. Sept. 11 With the prospect of something less than nor-! nor-! mal output in tho fruit crops it is estimated es-timated that mall's orchords will yield an Income of $1,000,000, this year. Late frosts in some of the districts dis-tricts are' responsible for a slight de-creaso de-creaso in the colis, while in other 'districts 'dis-tricts they will lx? well up to the normal nor-mal and in some rasen above IL Bettor Bet-tor prices offset in a large measure the. loss in output. William VI Roylanco of Provo, estimates esti-mates tho Utah 1911 fruit output as follows: Ono thousand cars of peaches, peach-es, 700 cars of apples, 50 cars of peats, and 50 cars of plums and pnineB. The apple crop Is expected- to be above the normal, and pear crop Is estimated to be, three of four times greater than that of 1010. The inccasc In prlco on peaches ranges from 7 to 20 cents per crate or box. On account of the inceasod acreage of new orchards tho peach crop jf Utah county will be from 10 to 25 per cent greater than the 1910 output, out-put, ffhe following statement covering cover-ing Utah county was glvon out Wednesday Wed-nesday by Mr. Roylanco- Utah Fruit Outpuht. Provo and vicinity. The crop will bo Bhlpped about 100 cars of peachos. about 85 per cent of these going from Provo and. vicinity. The crop will be from 10 per cent to 25 pei eent heavier heav-ier than last year on account or tho large acrenge of new orchards that are coming into bearing. This overcomes over-comes the shortage caused by tho frost without which there would have been 500 to 700 cars shipped from this county. . "Prices are bettor than they wero In 1909 and 1910, growers now receiving fom 35 to 50. cents a-qrate for peaches, from 35 to 50c a crate for peaches. Prices arc now a little stronger than they were early in the season. The neacln crop is three or four timo as heavy as In 1900 and 1910. About 30 cars of pears will be shipped from the county, for which tho growers grow-ers wil receive from $25 to $50 a ton, according to the quality. "There will be about -10 cars of plums and prunes shipped out of tho country, which is three times the crop of each of tho previous two years. Growcs will receive from $20 to $30 a ton for these. "The apple crop' will be much heavier heav-ier than, last year and the year before and will reach about 150 cars. Prices will bo nearly up to those of 1909 and 1910. "Tho carlpad lots of fruit shipped from tho county will reach approximately approxi-mately 350 cars, at an average price of $500 per car, which will make $170,-000. $170,-000. There will also bo a large amount of small shipments, of which It is difficult to make any estimato It Is probable through that these. Including In-cluding small fruys and berries, will amount to about $40,000. The quality of the fruit is improving and the growers arc improving in the man-nor man-nor of packing from year to year." Prices higher In Weber. Weber county, it is estimated will fall short 50 cars in the poach shipments ship-ments tliis year from those of 1910, but the producer will receive tho benefit ben-efit of higher prices. Last year tho farmer and orchardist received and avorago price of 23 cents a box on peaches in the eastern markets, and while this year thej are receiving from 40 to 53 cents a box, f. o. b. Ogden. Og-den. Wehor county will ship out about 510 cars of peaches this year. In the Logan district peach-growing haB only of late vears received its Impetus after the Agricultural colloqo demonstrated the practicability of peach culture in that section. During the present year about 3,000 young trees wore set out by farmers. Brlgham City District. The Brigham City district will have about, nn 80 per cent output this year Last nenson 27C straight cars were shlnped out and this year the total will not excoed 175 cars. Including tho oxpross shipments and the peaches hauled out by wngon tho 1010 output was, altogether about GOO cars, whilo Ihls ear-the product will not go far hoond 450 cars. |