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Show Apple Info-dry In Utah County ti1 -winter aiia bpi-ing. From my experience the most profitable uL.es t0 grow la our dis. trict are Jonatu Rome Beauty, Winesap and Delicious... Edmuna Cragun. o In this article I will give only a glimpse of this great industry. Not only does Utah County hold first place as the wonderful "Strawberry" county of our state but it produces more commercial apples than all the other counties of the state combined. It has held this position for a number num-ber of years. Many orchardiste have spent large sums of money in order to bring this industry up to where it is at the present time. Therefore we should put forth, our best efforts to staple-ize staple-ize this industry. We have many problems confronting us, which we must over come in order to hold our present position. Many of our orchardists, who have just a few trees in their back yards, have become discouraged and are neglecting their orchards. These trees are full of disease and are covered with scale. They should be cleaned up or pulled up. Those who enter this industry should do so on a large enough scale to make it profitable, for we cannot produce high ggrade apples unless we give our trees the best of care. Our greatest hinderance to this industry is the "scale" and "coddling moth." In some sections the scale hae almost ruined good apple orchards. This trouble can usually be traced to the small orchardist, who depends on some one to do his spraying, and it is not done at the proper time. Very often we find the coddling moth all hatched out and the worm gone into the apples before the spraying is done. If we do not spray at the proper time we might just as well TTot spray at all. When a few orchards are thus infested, it is very hard for adjoining orchardists orchard-ists to keep tlieir frji'it clean, no matter how many times they sprap. Compared wjfth! other westcfrn states, Utah is not producing enofh apples per acre of ground to make this great industry profitable. One of the best ways to increase our yield is to keep our trees fertilized with barnyard manure or commercial commer-cial fertilizer. Trees must also have plenty of water to keep them in good growing condition. We cannot place too much stress on prunning and thinning. We have many apples going go-ing to our larger markets, without enough color to pass inspection. In order to have our apples color up we must prune and let the sunshine in. By thinning we raise larger apples and can sell them at a higher price. Inferior grades of apples should not be placed on the market as they lower the price of good apples. ap-ples. They should be fed to the hogs. ' ; !'! 'V;'?:"f;i. We have spent a great deal of time and money and worry in trying to sell our apples at a fair profit. We can all see the need of co-operation in making this industry pay a fair income on our investmnts. Perhaps Per-haps a few helpful suggestions will not be out of place. 1. Now is the time of the year to prune and pull out old trees. 2. Make arrangements to spray properly and rid our orchards of scale and coddling moth. (3. Fertilize a,pple trees (so they will produce more apples each year. 4. Thin aples right after the June drop. We will have larger apples ap-ples and fewer culls. 5. Give trees plenty of later to keep them in good growing condition. condi-tion. 6. Do not sell cull1 apples on any of our markets. 7. Apples should be picked and packed carefully so we can guarantee good quality. S. Spend more money advertising to the consuming public. 9. Co-opratc, put up a good article and stapleize Utah County apples. 10. Build larger and better warehouses ware-houses where later varieties can be stored until the markets open up in |