Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-12-19

, than eight acres OF ground) will yield
the grower, az soon as they come into
good bearing, an income OF SO a day
as long as he lives. With the facilities
Utah offers and such possibilities, what
could not be done with fruit growing
intellgently pursued?
Sanpete IL far from being an ideal fruit
growing county either In soil or CHI
mate, yet those who grow fruit there
make some profit from. II. Mr. WllsoG
OF Mt Pleasant has an acre and half
patch OF raspberries which yielded in
1902, 500 cases of fruit, which he sold on
the cars at his railroad station for sl.50
per case. Last spring he sold $40
worth of young plants from this same
patch, a total Of 81 40 from the acre
and half In twelve months Mr..
Atwood Brown of renterville. Davis
county, has a 6-acre cherry orchard,
conside ed by those who have seen 1t
as the Irize cherry orchard Of the state.
His income in the past two or three
seasons has been about 5000 per acre.
As the cherr, orchard requires about the
least water of any fruit plantation and
the least work for same returns, 1t
Is suggested that where the soil Is suit
able and irrigating water Is not album
dant for growing other fruits, cherries
may be grown with profit
In Brigham city and vicinity the
writer saw many strawberry patches
this past season that had been set from
1--WE TO eight years, yet they were yield
ing their owners $500 per acre per
annum, aud as long as they did that
the growers We're reluctant to pillow up
the old bed and put In new plants, not
withstanding the greater profit from a
newer plantation. A twoyear old
strawberry patch well set with thrifty
plants, Will yield an income OF $500 TO
500 In the one season But II takes
systematic work to accomplish this.
One can estimate the profit In apple
growing from the prices this fruit is
retailed In Salt Lake city $l7J to
| $500 per bushel has been the prevail
| ing price since the middle of Noyem'
| Der.
There are great possibilities In the
| raisn industry in Utah's Dixie" not
| withstanding its remoteness from the
| railroad and good markets, A three
| year old vineyard will yield about ton
| of the finest raisns ever sold in the
western market, which should bring
| az the very least 800, and as the vines
| mature the yield may be doubled The
| special advantage and adaptabillty OF
| this industry to the agricultural condi-
| tions OF the south should commend 1t
| to the people of southern Utah with pc
cullar force. For successful grape
growing only half the rrigatlng water
| is needed that the growing of alfalfa
| and other like crops require while the
| profits from grape growing are incom-
parably greater.
! The greatest want in Utah fruit
| culture hitherto, as in most other lines
| of agricultural practice, has been the
lack of careful and systematic work,
| and the omission of little details that
make for success. Until the advent of
the sugar factory systematic and scien-
| tiilc farming of any description was
| practically unknown In this state 1t
| has often been remarked and with
much truth that had the sugar fac
tories done no more for Utah than to
teach and emphasize scientific farming
| practises, they were worth to the state
all that they had cost to build and
| establish If the fruit growing indus
! try Is Systematically followed In all It's
details and as scientifically as is the
present method of growing sugar beets,
there is no branch of farming that can
| compare In profitable returns with the
| work Of the orChardist to say moth
ing of the pleasure It affords the fruit
grower in cooperating with nature IN
producing the most luscious and beau
tiful farm crop that grows.
Brigham city affords the best ex-
ample Of business fruit growing In the
state. A few large peach growers there
ship by the car load, much of the fine
fruit going as far east as Chicago and
Minneapolis, bringing very profitable
returns, The smaller growers ship
through local fruit houses, and all
through the season from the first
1 strawberries of spring TIL the late au-
tumn fruits are gathered, there IL Il
i constant stream Of fruit going out of
Brigham city to distant markets, and
as consequence the people are pros
porous The secret of their success liz
thoroughness. They take good care Of
their orchards and small fruit plats;
both thin and spray their fruits, pick
carefully and put them up In attrac-
tive and honestly made packages, and
have no trouble to dispose of all their
fruit at best prices.
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