Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-04-06
'HORT|CULTUR|STS
CONCLUDE WORK.
President Judd Of St. George
Was Reelected to That
Office.
FEEDING HUNGRY ORCHARD"
Subject Treated Upon by Prof. j. \.
Widtsoe Of Is. Y. u.--Prcst. Kerr
On Horticulture and Education.

The annual meeting Of the Utah state
Horticultural society was concluded
last evening, with the election Of the
following officers: President, l.. Judd
Of st. George. reelected; vice presi-
dent. S. II. Snow, secretary. r. L.
Wilson. These officers, with the fol-
lowing, form the executive board: j.
g. Dufhn and w. O. Knutson. The
country vice presidents are r. 5.
Northrup for cache county W. $.
Hanson for Boxelder, Joe Stanford for
Weber.
At the afternoon meeting Prof. j. A.
Widtsoe OF the b. u. university at
Provo read a paper ON Feeding the
Hungry Orchard" IN which he said.
MY hearts sympathy stands for the
development OF the state III we are
to maintain superiority We must speci-
alize. Fruit pays better than wheat
or any other cereal. We are working
for posterty. We are the prophets
OF the time to come. Hungry orchards
need water and labor, and II the aver
age Utah orchard IL properly cared for
II must succeed. There are nine ele-
ments that enter into successful cul-
tivaton OF the soil, one from the at
nosphere and eight from the soil, and
unless these are renewed the soil must
be barren. Hear the cry from New
England of abandoned farms lt
means that these people starved their
ground, and now the ground cannot
feed the people. Fruit takes from
the soil twice the nourishment wheat or
grain of any kind takes. Weight for
weight fruit draws twice az heavily
on soil as does anything else. We
should feed plants as we feed human
beings. Potash and phosphoric acid
are the great needs OF the hour and the
ground. Utah orchards are potash
hungry. We have In Utah soils all de-
posits necessary 70 good fruit To get
air and water into the soil, keep plOughs
going, and plough in the fall. Use 800
pounds OF lime per acre, and plough it
| In. Green manuring Is good method
for feeding hungry orchards. Manure
| the ground every year. II Is the spas
modic effort that leaves the soil hung
n.y."
PRESIDENT KERR.
President Kerr OF the Agricultural
| college, in his address on Horticulture
! and Education" said
| For n system Of education no coun-
| try can compare with US on horticul-
| tural studies. Only s1l,0000O0 are given
| by the government for this purpose out
| OF a total expenditure for all purposes
OF s349, 600, 600, and only FIVE OF the
| eleven millions are really available,
| Yet no other industry comes so close
home to our homes and pockets as
! fruit raising. No industry IN the ma
-, tlon today Is better for our people,
| aud no other is so little helped, In
! Our technical schools all work is pro-
| yided for but agriculture and horticul-
| ture. We are not able TO meet the
| pressing demand for educated and CONF
| petent men to take charge OF large
| orchards. The crops from orchard
| and farm for last year amounted 10
| S6,542. 900 600 One-tenth of all this
was lost through the ravages Of pests
This proves the need OF specialists.
Seventeen millions of school children
never rise above the eighth grade
and Il should be that these millions
should have some education along
| lines touching their future careers
We are doing nothing to educate oul
people for the work they must do after
they leave school. We could meet the
demand by adding to the curriculum
OF the lower schools such elementary
studies as would tend to teach mer
who must be farmers how to intelli.
gently do their work. Our local ex.
pertinent station Is doing all II car
along this line. Apples and pears wer,
damaged last year s20000000 by pests
four times more than all the govern
, ment pays for horticultural work OF
educational work on that line, Oul
people must be educated to take ad-
vantage of modern methods. This de-
mand for trained agriculturlsts can b,
met by work In the grade schools.
zone thing is fundamental and indls
pensable. and that IL honesty In oui
dealings, Utah fruit sells on sight be