The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-21
WORMY FRUIT
DIRE MENACE
Sale of infected Apples Bitter
ly Denounced at State H0T-
ticuIturaI Meeting.
PESTS AND ERADICATION
BEST METHODS OF CLEANING UP
ORCHARDS DISCUSSED.

Concerted action on The part of the
horticulturists AMI fIU.l daaiers of utah
will probably result III the passage OF
a state law prohi5it;:.,y wOrmy snj IN
fected fruit upon the Utah market. The
matter was tie principal subject NJ
discussion at the evening session of the
Utah state Horticultural society's con-
Vention yesterday and a resolution uFg-
ing the passage Of sucn d law Is now
before Tie convention and will probably
be unanimously adopted
This resolution is the result of a
scathing rebuke delivered to the fruit
growers by ]. Edward Taylor, secretary
OF the state board of horticulture, VINO
told the growers that they were direct
iy responsible for the fact that Utah
had a reputation for growing wornIy
fruit.
utah has no more worms than IdaEo
OF Oregon said Mr.. Taylor. ''The
trouble is that Utah's worms are better
advertised. To understand what this
means, one need only go to the Salt
Lake market and bite into the aver
age apple to find that it is the nest Of
the larvae of the codling moth.
Taylor Denounces Careless Growers.
1.-The man who grows a woEmy ap-
pie should be made to eat it. That is
the only way l know of at present to
make him use ordinary precautions to
get rid of wormy fruit which can be
done so easily by modern methods of
spraying fruit. The selling of wormy
fruit is rapidly hurting the market for
Utah fruit and resulting in a direct loss
to the grower and the dealer, and dis
gushing the consumer.
THAT you may understand what sort
of a reputation has gone out with ref
erence to Utah apples, l read you this
extract from a letter from Joseph W.
Wallisch, secretary Of the Montana
state board of horticulture; Occasion
ally shipments are made from your
state to Butte consisting of apples and
pears, but invariably they are con-
demHed on account Of infection from
cooling moth
you ask me what will you do with
your wormy fruit. The best way is not
to have any, but if there are such
wormy apples You can sell them to be
manufactured into by-products. such as
cider, vinegar, evaporated fruit, etc.
To Bar Wcrmy Fruit.
Before this convention adjourns
want TO see il go on record favoring
the passage of law barring wormy
fruit from the market. Such laws are
lin operation in Colorado, Oregon and
Idaho and Montana, and there is an
absolute necessity for such law in
Utah"
At the close OF Mr.. TayIor's address
!. A. Hancock, a Salt Lake fruit dealer
endorsed what had been said and added
that in a single shipment of apples his
firm had received 200 cases of wormy
apples out of $1,000 William H. Wilcox
of no
society, pledged the support of his or
ganizatiOn to such a movement.
William Roylance of Provo then in
trOduced a resolution that it be the
sense of the convention that the Utah
State Horticultural society use its in
fueFce to secure the passage of state
law barring wormy or infected fruit
from the market. After some favora BILE
discussion the resolution was referred
TO the committee on resolutions to be
appointed today.
The first session opened at o'clock
in the afternoon and adjourned short
ly before o'clock. An evening session
was held from 1880 to 10 o'clock. Sew
eral interesting papers were read on
various subjects of especial import
ance to horticulture. Remedies were
suggested for existing evils and valu-
able hints were given on the methods
of caring for fruit and trees.
An invocation was given by John p
Sorenson. The presidents annual adj
dress, which was given by James O.
Duffin of Provo, president of the So
Ciety, follows in part:
The Presidents Address.
Fruit growers associations in this state
The growers associations in this state
are to a certain extent in the experiment
al stage: But where they can be organ
ized with a competent board of directors
capable managers to be employed, and
these officers in turn receive the loyal
support of the producers, we believe they
will become a strong factor in building
up our reputation in the markets of the
world. But no association will be success
full in establishing a market reputation so
long as its members insist on having in
feiOr fruits put on the market. nor can