The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-21
Fruit GROWERS PARADISE
Utah the Finest Place in the
World.
Facts and Suggestions of value t.
Horticulturists.

The grand exhibits of hardy fruits
at the late Utah fair, held in this city,
demonstrated beyond the peradventure
of a doubt, that Utah is naturally as
fine fruit country as there is in the
United States, not even excepting Cal
ifornia, exclusive of tropical fruits,
Visitors were in raptures over the fine
fruit that was shown and were aston
ished to learn that so little attention is
given to the raising of fruits in Utah.
The indifference OF Utah farmers to
the fruit interests in the past can only
be accounted for in the fact that they
had become well-nigh discouraged on
account of the successive total failures
of fruits caused by the Goblin moths
and other destructive insect pests.
Spraying Success.
But one season of spraying the or
chards, done more or less efficiently
during the season just passed, has
Shown that the destructive insects can
be effectually destroyed. The fruit
crop of Utah is better in quality this
season than it has been in twelve or fif-
teen years and if the work of spraying
is continued it viii be the means of
placing Utah in the front rank as a
fruit-producing country. Instead OF i'm
porting nearly a half million dollars
worth OIL ITulI we can export IN6 Times
this quantity annually, and bring an
era Of prosperity never known in Utah
before.
Wheat Growing Improbable.
The Utah agriculturist, with his av-
erage farm of twenty acres, which he
must irrigale in order to produce any
thing, cannot possibly compete profit
ably with the great ten-thousand acre
wheat and corn farms Of the Dakotas,
Nebraska Kansas and Iowa, but he
can compete, very successfully too, with
the California fruit-grower, because he
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borS would also start an orchard, and
have fruit to sell in competition with
them.
Opinions of Fruit Growers.
The editor of CHURCH AND FARM
has made it a business to interview
leading nursery men and fruit growers
in different parts of the territory, who
sustain and endorse the views ex-
pressed above and can show practical
illustrations of the truth Of the claims
made in favor of Utah fruit farms.
Fruit-growing in Utah is not new ex-
pertinent, except to those who have
never made an effort in that direction.
A few of this class we hope to convert
10 the fact that the future wealth of
Utah. in a great measure at least, will
accrue from fruit culture. When one
acre of fruit can be made to yield "a
profit of 500 to $500 over and above all
expense. according to the experience
and ability of the producer. it is simple
folly to continue to raise wheat and po-
tatoes. Land that will produce these
profitably will grow the finest orch
ards; and if the same amount of work
is put on the orchard that is usually
devoted to the cultivation of corn and
potatoes the profits will be incompara-
bly, greater in favor of fruit.
Suggestions to Beginners.
That the beginner may be started
right. and that he may make no eX-
pensive mistakes, we present in this
issue a large number of articles devo-
ted specially 10 fruit culture. prepared
in many instances by leading hoTticul-
tural writers of the country and every
article is selected for its practical util-
ity and adaptability to the conditions
and circumstances of the Utah farmers.
Varieties of Fruit to Plant.
AS to the kinds and varieties of fruits
, to plant that are profitable in Utah,
, and that cen be cultivated with sue
cess. we found striking unanimity of
opinion among orchardists and nursery
men, who have tested nearly all the pop
ular varieties of fruits, and recommend
the sorts named below. as the very
best Of their kind. both for profit in
the market and excellence for family
use. The kinds named under. each vari-
ETY. will afford a succession of fruit all
1 through the season, and in the case of
apples some Of the kinds named will
keep till the next seasons apple crop
comes in. All the trees here named can
be obtained from any of the leading
home nurseries. and there is no need at
present TO send east or west to obtain
the best fruit trees that will grow here
Many other kinds could be named un-
der each variety, but we name here
only a limited number-the very best
of its kind.
OF Apples-For summer, plant the
Red Astrachan. Yellow Transparent.
Early Harvest and Red June: for fall
apples. plant Chenangan Strawberry,
Duchess Gravenstein, Maiden Blush
Porter, Twenty Ounce, and Bietigheim-
er: for winter apples. plant NewtS,yn
Gippin. Rhode Island Greening, White
Winter Pearmain. Gano, Baldwin
Rome Beauty, Jonathan. Rawle's jan
ct and Wine Sap and SAWYER.
The winter apples viii always bring
the greatest profit, and the apple or
chard should be made up mostly of the
winter sorts. In Western New York
the advice used to be, in planting
thousand trees plant nine hundred and
nineVy-nine Baldwins and plant the 9TH
er tree a Baldwin also. While this may
have been too large a planting of one
variety, it shows the high esteem in
which this apple is held as a market
fruit: no variety yields larger crops or
bears shipment better or is more at
tracbve in color and size and shape
than the Baldwin. While not of the
highest quality it is esteemed as an
eating apple and for cooking.
Plant in October or November, or
in spring.
OF Pears-Plant for succession
Wilder Early, Tyson. CLAMPS Favcrite.
Bartlett, CARRIER. Seckel. Howell, Beurre
Ester, Flemish Beauty, Sheldon.
Beurre d'Anjou Mt. Vernon. Clairgeau,
Vicar of Wakefield, P. Barry,
Winter Nelis, Krul A prominent
New York orchardist says: I'm
painting an orchard of one