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Show oo PEARS GROWN IN OGDEN. Twenty years ago pear orchards were to be seen In all directions from Ogden and this district had tho name of producing the best pears on the American market Then came the blight and all except a few trees were destroyed by the disease or uprooted by the orchardists. One of the men who persisted in laboring to overcome the blight Is Merlin J. Stone who has a small orchard or-chard In the north part of the city. Ho cut off tho blighted limbs and kept up the amputating of the affected parts, and saved his trees. This season sea-son he will have a larger crop than at any time in the past. He attributes his success to his constant pruning, but he says the disappearing of the bee hives with the plowing up of alfalfa alfal-fa fields has helped save tho trees as the bees were the active conveyors of blight. With a way found to control or lini-it lini-it tho ravages of blight, tho Ogden district may once more be known as a largo producer of delicious, sweet, juicy pears. on |