The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-01-17
COUNTY GOOD
FRUIT PRODUCER
Inspector ]. P. Sorensen Says
Industry Is Growing.
FILES HIS ANNUAL REPORT
BE GIVES SUGGESTIONS TO ALL
HoRTIcULTURIsTs.

There are 2.4I7 acres OF fruit trees
and about 1.4lI acres OF. berries in the
county outside the city limits. and
about 800 acres Of fruit trees in Salt
Lake City. according TO the annual re-
port Of Fruit Inspector J. P. Sorenson.
There was an estimated increase Of 10
per cent in planting during 1903 over
1902 average. About % per cent Of the
fruit raised in the county is sorted and
packed in boxes for shipment, the re-
mainder being brought to the city. for
sale in amy way. old barrels, soap
boxes. tins, sacks, ETC. The inspector
adds that if half the attention paid to
corn and Iucern- were devoted 10. fruit
raising, the latter would be a paying
industry in the county.
Inspector S0rens0n says the insects
which cause the most destruction are
Goblin moth Iarva, woofly aphis, pear
slug, pearl blight. crown gail, red
spider, currant worm aHG peach curl.
Many bugs are permitted TO increase
owing to lack OF knowledge OF how to
rid an orchard Of them.
During 1903 he says the following
new varieties of fruit were introduced:
Charlotte peach by Santo Casio OF Hol-
liday. sugar prune ana Fitzgerald and
Bokara peach By himself. The follow
ing varieties Of fruits are raised more
prohHeaIly Ia the following sections
of the county;
Where Fruits Do Well.
Peaches on upper benches; apples
and pears in the low, wet and well
watered lands: cherries and prunes on
an lands between these two, when free
from late spring frost; berries, every
where
Continuing. the report has the fol-
lowing TO say relative to the CONNER
cial value of different kinds of fruit;
Apples for commercial orchards,
that pay: Jonathan. Ben Davis. Rome
Beauty; Gano all great bearers ard
good sellers and good winter apples.
For peddlers' orchards add to above
for fall, Twenty Ounce and Rhode Is
land Greening. For summer peddling
add to above a few yellow Transpar-
ent. Red Astrschan and Duchess Of
Oldenburg. Do not go outside these
varieties; stay by them and they VIII
stay by you and fill your purse.
As for peaches, liberia and Utah
orange, II You want TO ship by car
load out of state; but for local market
leave them alone. Home market Is
overloaded now and viii be more so.
Plant instead for home market. the
Foster. Brighton. Early Rivers, Early
Crawford, Hale's Early, Charlotte
Mountain Rose. Triumph and Alexan-
der. All good bearers. splendid ped
dlers but poor shippers. but ali coming
one after another in best time.
For cherries, the Bing, Black Tar
tartan, Napoleon and Governor Wood.
Sweet cherries. the Montmoreney, En-
press Eugene and Refine Bortense are
the. cherries TO piantsand make money
Of, but don't plant where late spring
frost viii nip the blossom.
AS for prunes. do not waste time
and sand in salt Lake valley on them.
they do not pay.
As for pears, Bartlett, BUM, Aniou.
Winter Nellies, and Flemish Beauty
stand at the head, considering bearing.
hardness and market value. But II
you want 10 make money by fruit rails
ing, raise peaches on the stony. grav-
ely high benches, and apples on the
low lands, not forgetting to prune and
spray.