The daily sentinel., 1908-05-04
UTAH'S FRUIT CROP
PROMISES TO Be LARGE
Damage Not Nearly So Great as First
Reported-Activity In Every
Orchard-The Outlook.

+ Owing to the numb r of I.
+ erroneous reports that are be- I.
+ ing circulated concerning the I.
+ damage to the fruit crop by 4.
+ frost during the latter part of Z.
+ April. Secretary ]. Edward Tay- Z.
+ lor of the state board of horti- Z.
+ culture made a complete can I.
+ vass of the state, and finds +
+ that the damage is not nearly {.
+ so great as was first anticipated +
+ says yesterdays Salt Lake +
+ Herald. +
+++++ +++++
The peach crop. from the present
indications, will be above the nor
NAL. The principal peach districts.
including Brigham City. Weber
county. Davis county, Salt Lake
county and Utah county. are only
very slightly damaged. The heaviest
losses have occurred on the lower
lands in all the principal fruit grow
ing counties.
CURED seems to have been in the
Bear River valley, where the apple
crop is reported as badly damaged
This applies particularly around
Bear River City, Garland and Ire
monton, where the apple crop will
amount to probably so per cent of
the average. The apple lands in and
around Penrose. Box Elder county
were not damaged by the frost.
The strawberry crop has been
damaged from q per cent to about
33 per cent through the principal
berry growing sections of Salt Lake
and Utah counties. However. this
damage is only to the first bloom,
and the prospects are. taken as a
whole. for a normal crop.
Weber and Davis counties have
prospects for a bumper crop of every
kind of fruit. The fruit crop of
Cache county did not suffer to any
serious extent, the blooming period
of that county being little later
than other counties, and escaped
serious damage from the frosts. OF
course, in the higher valleys con-
siderable damage was done.
Reports from Sanpete, Sewer,
Emery, Carbon and Beaver show a
heavy loss to practically all fruit
crops. But the commercial area of
this section is not extensive
From the information available at
this time the peach, cherry and april
cot crop will be above the average
while the apple and pear crop will
average about 75 per cent over the
state. The strawberry crop will be
at least 80 per cent. with full crop
of other small fruits.
According to the April report of
]. p. Sorensen, county horticultural
inspector. there has been great ac-
tivity during the past thirty days
among the fruit growers in Salt Lake
county. Orchards have been pruned
old trees cut down and new trees
planted. The report, in part fol-
lows:
In the month of April great ac-
tivity prevailed in the horticultural
line. Over $4,000 trees were fumi-
sides some 800, 900 that were already
fumigated. inspected and stored
away in frostproof houses or heeled
in the ground for future delivery.
Boxes and bundles. containing about
1900 trees, were imported. About
l 5 per cent of the imported and
about 8 per cent of the homegrown
trees have been found diseased this
year. and the same have been
burned.
Orchards cleaned this spring,
$50; orchards pruned, 46S; orchards
winter sprayed, 60; old trees cut
down, SEQ; pear trees cut out for
blight, 1920: young trees planted,
23,513: orchards visited, GAG. In
one district southwest of Jordan six
large California spray pumps, cost
ing over $50 apiece, have been
bought and started to work. and
many farmers intend to take hold
of fruit raising in manner to pro-
duce results"