Show OTAH AS A FRUIT COTO A sensible suggestion to our farmers I 1 CUT OUT SCRUBS AND SEEDLINGS implanting Z ne in their place choice varieties so as is to secure a uniform quality and ready sale J for the tile I 1 last t twenty five years inen men have spoken af of the excellency of 0 utah as A rait fruit centre and dwelt especially 0 on n I 1 salt like valley and the regions to t the he fouth of it this is is as it should be from logan to st george the soil and I 1 climate are particularly favorable to the production ot of good fruit throughout it i i i salt lake valley athe the apple peach alili P I 1 cot pear plum prune quince and cherry can be produced of a quality not sur ae sed on earth while bile berries of every kin kind common grunion to temperate zones also at grow abundantly in every part ol 01 the r e Terri territory tor down the loog long chain of valleys that lie along the western bale base of be the wakat C h mountains we reach south 10 lj ero rn utah and there unknown to the great roaring busy world is an extensive region where a semitropical semi tropical climate is A N found and where the fig pomegranate 2 lemon orange and lime thrive as well 14 my if cultivated as in southern california around kate rockville ze virgin city washington st george an and d santa clara snow sel seldom clovy if ever is is i teen feen and the climate is the most agreeable during the winter months of an any Y part of the great southwest wesl west la in those pretty little villages village the grape thrives wonderfully it if properly cared for the raisins and the wine of of those regions are not surpassed by any produced in call bornia some years ago the writer used to visit that purt part of the world and the ral mi miners nerso t silver reef reel and pioche wera were X i accustomed to drink inordinate quantities fantl of the native wines of was washington I 1 n 14 ton and st george known as the dixie wine it is ol 01 two kinds verv very good and Is very bail bad the best beat wines of dixie produced as they are from a well cultured t and well ripened grape would cell sell in any market ot of the world but on the I 1 other hand many of the vineyards of 1 that locality aie ate poorly cared for the vines vinee are interior and the grape ill ripened when pressed produces a venomous product so inferior and rascally in its nature that I 1 have beard heard it said of it that a man drinking a quart would pet get up in be the night a and d steal his own clothes this blatter battor peculiarity of the inferior dixie wine is S attributed to t the he jaice juice ot the if yellow jackets jacket fl anich are pressed together with the grapes beyond doubt it may be truthfully said 0 of I 1 all alp fruits which can be produced in utah that each of its kind it if properly cultivated and given the advantage of yf climate and coil soil is superior to any other 1 produced in california the warm dry 1 atmosphere of utah will bring forth a peachier pea chier peach than can be found elsewhere we can bay the same of the I 1 apple pear plum apricot and cherry i but although utah is 13 thus naturally a i great trait fruit country tho culture of fruit is I 1 in a very backward and a var bwy unprofitable state around sit salt lake like oden ogden I 1 and other places throughout utah i orchards barda are found on every hand but I 1 ahey aey arence are net properly taken care of inferior stock is to first used and then poorly cared for the apples of utah have been 1 I allowed to become wormy until a utah I 1 apple is a thing to be shunned the 0 peach and apricot have been allowed to deteriorate until it is now difficult to find an orchard whose product is throughout stood and AS a result not une tenth the fruit is chipped from utah that might be shipped if the people would only get got the culture of fruit down to a science as it is to in california or the older elates of the atlantic seaboard why better fruit is not produced in I 1 utah arises from various causes but ae that it can be made one of the great b and profitable industries of our country is a fact and arld it is high time that the people j of utah turned their attention to it 81 at present fruit shippers usually oay ray of utah fruit that it w A unprofitable to 0 handle became that it is BO so difficult to I 1 obtain any given quantity on a large I 1 scale take for example the peaches should 4 a shipper desire to obtain for butte or denver markets a quantity of fine one large and well flavored peaches the utah fruit dealer could quite readily obtain from one to a dazen boxes of such peaches but to find from five hundred to five thousand boxes of such peaches would I 1 be impossible it is likewise so with apples plums pears and cherries there is in not enough first class fruit of any afy kind and as a result fruit buyers go we can thus judge how nee sary it is ato to have tha the people of utah give more inore attention to fruit culture I 1 a scrubby product is now gathered if better stock and more attention were given a million dollars might be taken each year and we might show an apple peach or pear not inferior to any in ameria Am prita I 1 believe that it will be but a short i time until utah will take her proper place ai as a fruit crowing growing country vom 8 5 thing which ha haq been neglected as an industry dug du try stry the alden fruit dryer eo so common further east was cover never introduced A here the many methods of destroying the enemies of plum alum peach apple or cherry have been little sought bought after in utah when however the attention of our people will be tamed turned to the wealth of the he orchards of utah land will be enhanced for this leaon alone and where now desolate dea roge brush grows on b and upland thrifty and attentive fruit growers rowers will gather fortunes from utah orchards 1 in no part of the farmers work ia Is education it and study BO so necessary nece aBary ibs las in anar I 1 cess fill fruit culture he ile may have a orchard where a variety of poor fruit is yearly produced bat but to have an orchard whose return evera e verv year is is a mine to its owner requires work fork and attention I 1 the county fair should be an established institution from I 1 logan george prizes or premiums i should ba bo given riven away far the host beat prod 0 acts of every kind our people should be taught to take pride prid e in producing the beet varieties of all ki kinds ids of fruit and in I 1 tuch auch quati quantities of a kind as to be able to 1 I supply tho the markets of utah nevada idaho montana colorado and wyoming I 1 and take aleo also a alla blikre too 0 the mar I 1 keta at times in the tile cities further east it has been eaid and doubtless truthfully that the railroads have not been giving utah a fair deal ia in the shipment i of fruit should this thir ba be BO so some method must bo found to remove ench such an fin ob 4 stach until no impediment remains to the shipment of our fruit into the eor sot i rounding and we eland stand on a footing with be the shippers of california A as |