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Show 'on the market In Utah," explained tho grocer, "hut they can be Kold in other states. In Utah the retail merchant mer-chant can handle only assorted applet ap-plet and for this reason the apples on tho retail markets are of a different dif-ferent character entirely than those shipped. Kvery year the agricultural department of tho stale la enforcing I he : law against the marketing of wormy apples. Wormy apples can bo taken In the canneries or the cider presses but they cannot be sold In the grocery stores. . When one considers con-siders that more than twenty-five per cent of all tho apples raised n t'ie present lime are. wormy. It la easy to gee why this worm law afferla the local market price of the fruit. "The county Inspector is very "strict In hiH Inspection of apples lu the stores or this county and wnon he finds a basket containing wormy fruit he 'dumps' the entire basket. I do not object to this law, I think it is a very good one a(1 will In time mean that there will be no wormy apples ap-ples raised In the state. It will force tho growers who do not spray their orchards nnd take proper care of their trees to do so or get out of business. There Is - no doubt about tho wisdom of the law. but It means that the people must pay a high price l for tho fruit than they did before It was enacted. In the ultimate It will be the means of lowering the price of tho fruit to the consumers because It will make for better fruit and laig-er laig-er crops nnd an almost entire extermination exter-mination of the apple worm from the state." APPLES -ARE ON DOWN GRADE The apple market Is demoralized this year, according to the .statements f several prominent apple growers of this vicinity. The great supply of the fruit from the northwest, from Colorado and the apple states of the east has pushed out the bottom of the demand and apples aro being scattered over the entire county in such reckless profusion that local shippers can find no markets. It Is claimed that while the fruit In this section of the county Is far superior to that of the northwest, the apples from that section are filling the market bins of the eat where heretofore fruit from Bear Valley has been deposited. This is because of the low prices which the northwestern northwest-ern growers have been accepting Many of the carload orders which the local shippers had Ixiokcd during the summer have been cancelled ami It is said that apples are piling up on the hands of rm:ny growers in this vicinity. Another feature which has caused trouble to tho growers in this locality Is that tho warm weather which has been prevalent this fall throughout tho state, has prevented th,- apples from coloring properly. While tho coloring of an apple does not affect its fed value, it s an Imivorlant item In Its selling value and eastern buyers buy-ers art. particular about the exterior 1 appeari-Mce of the fruit. I While it would seem that the absence ab-sence of a foreign market for the applet would cause a decided drop in the price of the fruit In Ogden, it has not had this fleet Apples are retailing in this city at about the same price ns in former years. Ben Davis apples are being sold In the grocery stores at about ?l..riU per bushel and Jonathans at $1.75 per bushel. J. S. Carver, president of ihe .state pure foo,i bureau, when aske.- Hijs afternoon why tho foreign market price shoiMd not nfi'ect. the local market, mar-ket, stated that it was due to the more rlg'd enforcement of the agricultural agri-cultural laws In thla siste. "Wormy apples cannot lo placed |
