The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-07-02
TIlVED SYSTEM
4 FRUIT PACKING
..sity of Classification
a Make Utah Products
Gain in Market.
METHOD
4 OF GRADING FRUITS
none Everything in Estab-
hing Demand for Pacific
Slope Products.

:, ,hev freely acknowledge
s;,;ons are improving wonder
,ho,s of the state Board OF
80 arc striving to bring
/ 4, adoption of more UNIFORM
q fruit packing than is now
in Utah. They admit that
1 !, The fruit growers are giving
,u,ntion to the matter OF pack
,,bers are joining the ranks of
,,,,. hut they say that if up
W. ,o,bods were universally
= this State the fruit from
r,aId be in greater demand and
,nmmand a better price on lor'
.,ssts, And even this is say
,sine derogatory of Utah fruit,
!, veil known that all of the
of the country arc open TO
';s,,s OF the Statc-thcy are
as can be found anywhere,
o6eers Of the board assert
:. fr;i shippers have been negli.
The matter of sorting and
s.s,se of the fruit business NAT
a ...ms inconsequental when II is
j ,aten into consideration. but
|.,,,rtbeless considered TO be the
;-portant factor in the Utah
I.,uess at the present time. 1t
!; ,novn that the reputation OF
'ru as a fruit growing State
-S,d essentially on a uniform
a hacking and grading, Nat
4 n, quality of the fruit is the
i,s,oi. but there are other see
the country that produce equal
,Gept goods and do not have
4 exalted reputation. \ little
,riun will prove that it is i'm
70 md two grades Of fruit
spplcs. cherries, etc.--in any
cf goods shipped from Cali
The Oregon Method.
n, instance which bears direct
N question is found In The fruit
4 distric. Of Hood River. Ore,
| he eases of fruit shipped from
sn,t are numbered and bear the
II toe grower. This makes it
ihle Tor the farmer 10 practice
|bu BY packing inferior goods in
Ia and covering it with layer
kted iruit or by any other
d II is said that the discovery
ID crookcdncss would mean os-
y 10 the Hood River country.
"a their association methods the
|s Of Hood River have raised the
.E apples from 81 cents 10 T3.lj
aiihiu The past three years. The
fzl profit makes it possible for
'1ll growers 20 bestow more care
fruit both in the orchard and
i psckiDg house and 10 keep
hsDk account besides.
2vsd Taylor. secretary Of thc
eate Board of Horticulture, re.
rtently from visit to the
hser country. In speaking of
SralioDs he said among other
"Ooe Of the farmers picked
aks Of strawberries from twelve
land this season. They brought
iiv. and the farmer received
~ the crop from his twelve
What is more. he experienced
t1lly IN dlsposjng Of the crop.
snes were in demand because
'uc properly handled. This
AZ value Of grading and pack,
NNd Encourages System.
ltab Board of Horticulture is
frg the adoption of first-class
Methods for the care that is
on frult' III this way will
y own reward. The markets
a0fa are open 10 Utah fruit
aemapd IS growing. but much
ioat that is being shipped
~ "SL PioF'ilN HdNhHi'
9ean 10 say, however, that
!. NUT growers are negligent.
.e been pursuing the best
iei years and others arc
ne standard method -
hof Then called attention TO
elcrrles which he had Just
from Brigham Civ farmors
nsd been examined he led
grocery store nearby and
~. wv many Of the farmers pack
'.s',les. The former were
ayers In standard box.
s'nd and alike in size. The
MI. ~. loose and mixed in every
,s way. Some were large,
Mr. some we're green and
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