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Show FRUIT CROP AND THE LEAF-ROLLER. Tho fruit district In and around Ogdcn Og-dcn this season will produce an excellent ex-cellent crop of apples, peara and plums, and the fruit tree Inspector, after a careful investigation 6ays C5 per cent of the peaches, 60 per cent of the sweet cherries, and 5 per cent of the strawberries have been save,!. This is remarkable, as the heavy frosts or three weeks ago were thought to have been too severe to allow any fruit buds to escape destruction. Had the forecasts proved true, Ogden wouJd have experienced Its first fruit-crop fruit-crop failure, and, therefore, It is a source of rejoicing that this section has yet to suffer a set-back; of that nature. The 03 per cent peach crop may prove to be a better money producer than when the trees, overloaded, yield Inferior fruit.' Two years ago a heavy frost thinned the trees and as a result re-sult the finest peaches ever gathered from the orchards of Weber county were marketed at fancy prices, and the orchardists that year gave thanks that the frost had served them to such good purpose. At present the leaf-roller is making mak-ing its appearance on the strawberry vines and the prospecthe 03 fer cent crop may be reduced to a smaller percentage per-centage if quick action is not taken. The source of the leaf-roller is a small rusty brown moth with white marks, which appears at this time of year, depositing eggs from which a greenish green-ish brown worm crawls to spin a web. rolling the leaves and destroying them. To overcome these worms, the strawberry patches now should be sprayed with Paris green or arsenate of lead and again sprayed about the time the berries form. In the opinion of Roy N. Ras-inusr.en, Ras-inusr.en, tho fruit tree Inspector, Weber county horticulturists once more will be richly rewarded by the yield of their fruit trees. 1 The only thing that can rob them of their harvest har-vest is a failure to spray. |