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Show WILL SUP 751 CAES OF Manager James White, ot tho Utah Fruit Exchange, states that, accord-Inf accord-Inf to reports of the directors, the Exchange this year will handle at least, 750 cars of peaches and 130 cars of apples. The shipments, to como from the different parts of the fruit zone. In number of cars, as tol-lows: tol-lows: Piovo 200 Springvillc CO Pleasant Grove ....k 100 Murray ." 20 Clearfield .". ?,r, Ogden , 125 Willard CO Brigham . 12fi Bear River 10 Xephl 8 The apple shipments will come largely from Proo and the Bear river country, tho former fifty cars and the latter eighty. Manager White says that this does mean that there will be no other shipments of fruit from the state. On the contrary, tho Exchange will handle han-dle only a small part of the fruit. Ho states that the Ro lance company at Provo will ship from that section from 800 to 1,000 cars of peaches The Exchange, lor, 1b getting more fruit lo handle this year than heretofore and it is only a question of lime until all the associations of the state, and also, individual fruit growers grow-ers will become identified with the Exchange and it will be made the medium through which most of the I fruit of Utah will bo marketed At csterday's meeting of the dl-I dl-I rectors, the queBtlon of properly I grading fruit was taken up and it was I determined to furnish cards to tho I fruit growers and to the dealers. The inlormation given the grower will have to do with how. when and where he shall gather and pack his crop for shipment and the dealer will be told of the varieties and the grades of fruit he has In stock and what each grade represents In quality qual-ity Two expert packers and shippers will be employed bv tho Exchange to take charge of the gathering cf the ciop. one to attend to the business in tho fruit zone south of Salt Lake, the other to take care of that section north of the capitnl city. The experts will be selected from the workors in Cnlifo:nla and Washington. Their duties will begin at the first gathering gather-ing of peaches next month nn |