Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-12-14

and trees and managing the plantation
or orchard Loose. slipshod methods.
indifiercntly followed. VIII certainly re-
suit in failure. Am the details OF tho
work must be- done az the right time
and in the right way. Given good
management. and the proper selection
OF fruit plants. vines. and trees well
cared for. and the fruit handled In n
businoss-likc way. there is every as
surance that fruit growing IN Utah can
he made n better moncy-ma prOn-
ositlon than any other line OF aFrlcul-
turul practise. Five acres lu well
cared for orchard or small fruit lot cam
be made To- yield "a better income than
the average 100 acre general crop farm.
This amount OF land in apples alone
could be made to return to its owner
and carctaker. ~ he has or viii de-
velop by study and application an ape
ttude Tor fruit growing a salary of
$40 day FOR every working day in the
year, and the income is sure as long az
he lives. This IS a low estimate. and
has been doubled by fruit growers in
this and other states.
FRUIT GROWING ASSOCIATIONS.
Five or six years ego the apple grow
ers Of Hood River oregon, where the
best apples of the world ore said TO
come from--were not using any system
or business methods in their work
They did little spraying put mp the
fruit IN any old way and sold it lu llko
manner. for any price they could gct.
their best apples bringing Thorn So CcntJ
per bushel box. Then they organized
into an apple growers union or assoc
citation, and adopted strict business
methods. They sprayed thor t.ece
thoroughly and took especially GOOD
care OF their orchards during The grow
ing season. When the fruit was fully
mature the growers gathered the crop
but the packing in neat and attractive
~ labeled boxes was done by the ass
sociatlon itself 20 insure an honest and
guaranteed uniform pack. The solcs
were effected through the association.
which ms soon as the crop was we'll in
hand wrote the big fruit buyers of the
country. told them what they had aud
asked for bids. Prices of their orch-
ard products rose in leaps and bounds.
so anxious were buyers TO get their
guaranteed fruit This seasons apple
crop brought tho growers of Hood
River 1927 p per hushel box. at their
railroad station, and the growers did
not have apples enough to supply the
demand.
The apple producers there grow but
two varieties principally Spitzonherg
ana NcwtoWn Pippin. with % surIukliuR
OF Winter Bananas BaIdwlus and Ben
Davis. Tho growers specialize ON the
first two named and bend every effort
TO grow those to perfection, and as "a
consequence, aided boy good advertising.
the Oregon apple BIS famed as the best
grown lu the world.
Utah's climate and other conditions
are as favorable TO the growing OF nue
u NH#. ia ID
same care and attention given TO their
culture as obtain in Oregon, as d8t-
teriug results could be attained. Utah
IS 800 miles nearer the eastern fruit
market than Oregon. and the shipping
facilities are AN that can be desired %
growers viii unite IN getting fair rates
over the railroads, all OF which win
initiate TO the advantage OF local
growers.
The farmers OF Utah are lamentably
backward ia the knowledge OF business
methods. especially IN methods of COM
bination. Only by the formation and
operation OF cooperative societies can
the farmers and fruit growers compete
with commercial industries. force out
surplus middlemen. compel railroads to
provide better facilities for transporta-
ton and dictate more favorable legis-
latlon. BY working together as the
OAhhhlA TT UT BINNtAh AAH lAt growers
here can consign in bulk and distribute
their goods in the market and get all
that is coming TO them in the way OF
profits.
NOT EXAGGERATED F1CTIONS.
That tho figures given I'm this paper
are not exaggerated fctiOns, reference
is made to a recent statement in the
Rural New Yorker, giving tho output OF
some New York apple orchards. Three
apple orchards IN the western part Of
the state are referred 20. In the first
there are 500 Baldwin apple trees. about
So years old which produced $4,000
worth Of fruit this year. Another or
chardist sold $1,000 worth OF fruit from
% Baldwin trees. In the third orchard
tree 40 years old had produced dur
ing its bearing years. at least $3.50