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Show There Will Be Fruit to Preserve Farm Bureau Tells Homemakers ning," Ferguson said. He said he had concluded, after talking to growers and extension exten-sion service specialists, that the damage in some areas of the state may not be quite as bad as some reports indicated indicat-ed earlier in the week, although a number of growers suffered disastrous disas-trous losses. "Apricots were hit hard, as were many low-lying peach and sweet cherry orchards. But many growers will still have a good supply of the major canning fruits and we expect to market an excellent quality crop again this year," the Utah county grower said. Ferguson said winterkill earlier in the year actually did much of the damage to peaches. "Even so, we do expect to have some peaches from part of the state to sell this fall," he added. He said it was just too early to make any accurate assessment of the losses growers will face as a result of the recent freeze damage. "That kind of a figure will only be available at the end of the season. Clearly, however, fruit production is an important im-portant part of Utah's economy and fruit growers are improving the quality of Utah-grown Utah-grown fruit every year," the farmer said. Despite severe damage dam-age to Utah's fruit crop from the recent frost i! and earlier winterkill, therewillbeasupply of " fresh fruit for consum-'! consum-'! ws in Utah's fruit stands this year, ac- cording to Bill Ferguson, Fergu-son, Santaquin, fruit producer and chairman chair-man of Utah Farm Bureau's fruit crops committee. "The only thing worse than the recent frost damage would be for our customers to get h false impression that there won't be any fruit, or that it will be 2 wo expensive to buy, and then cancel their 1 1 Plans for home can- |