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Show Housewives Can Bounteous Yield Of Utah Fruits One of the best crops of fruits that Utah has had in years is being harvested with canning in full swing as trees bear testimony to a provident provi-dent year. Canneries are hiring maximum capacity ca-pacity help to take care of the crop, while a great increase in home canning can-ning is anticipated as Utahns can preserve with beet sugar, a home state product, which is at the lowest price available in years. According to Frank Andrews, statistician for the Department of Agriculture, peaches and cherries are leading the list of heavily bearing bear-ing fruits. Estimated crop for peaches this i year is 558,000 bushels as to 72,000 for 1937. The ten-year average for Utah peaches is 534,000, showing this year is 14,000 bushels above average. This year the estimate for the state cherry crop is listed at 3,960 tons while last year it was but 2,100 tons. The ten-year average for cherries in the state is 3,108 tons. More sweet cherries are being planted plant-ed because they prove good commercially com-mercially for shipping, it was stated. The pear crop for 1938 is estimated estimat-ed at 126,000 bushels this year as J against 64,000 bushels last year. The ' ten-year average for pears is 81,000 bushels. Apples have fallen off slightly, however. This year estimate places the crop at 491,000 bushels, while last year the crop yielded 500,000 bushels and the ten-year average was 617,000 bushels. Small fruits, such as strawberries, raspberries and others have produced produc-ed fair crops. |