Show blanding fruit growers organize 0 blanding residents Kave decided acid ed that the production of victory fruits is as important as the production of victory gardens farmers think of planting a crop of wheat without first ridding the land of all pests treating the seed and carrying out certain well proven practices of production yet they go on trying to produce fruit without taking the same necessary precautions as pruning spraying and thinning during the past week blanding residents formed the blanding fruit growers association first for the purpose of protecting the fruit grower by enforcing the state law that requires fruit to be sprayed or the trees removed and second the purchase of a community sprayer large enough to spray the entire town within three to four days the townspeople town people contri contributed wonderfully to the project even people who had no trees of their own were interested enough in the project to donate generously sufficient money was contributed to purchase a sprayer at a cost of this sprayer will be brot from salt lake with the joe hunt truck line this week enough spray material is available to do he job and work will comme commence rice as son soon as the sprayer arrivers arr ivess the sprayer is of gallons capacity it has a power takeoff take off cliine stion for a tractor and is mounted on two seel wheels it has a pressure of pounds ard and two 50 foot hose attachments all residents of blanding having apple or pear trees are expected to spray or aati action m will be taken whereby they will be forced according to state law to re remove amov e their trees A few infested trees in a community will contaminate the entire community if any fruit is to be grown the co opera von tion of all residents reside ts in solicited solicits I in cair dairying ying this project et through the oi cers of the association are R IV mcalis er president justin dl black lack vice president ray burtenshaw other members are wilbur rowl rowley e y ray hurst wayne carroll and glenn black |