The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-21

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teen tons. Sixty bushels or wheat, six
/ tons of well cured hay and thirty tons
OF sugar beets would be an unusually good
yield; yet thousands of acres planted to
/ these crops are some of the finest fruit
/ lands in the state Now, make calcula-
lions on the returns from the wheat.
, sugar beets and hay, and compare with
the following:
What Peach Grower Did.
"A peach grower in Utah county. from
ten acres of alberta peaches, after paying
/ Tor boxes, paper and nails, received 20,OOU,
| another grower from l46 alberta trees sold
500 worth of peaches; another grower
sold $IU0 worth of peaches from fSJ trees:
still another grower from little over
three acres of alberta trees sold little
] oyer N,9C0 worth of fruit Had our repu-
4 tation been established as that OF Grand
Junction or Palisade, Colo, returns would
| have far exceeded these figures. What is
/ being done in the peach business is also
| being done with apples. And, mark you,
! these are not isolated cases, for other or
chards in Utah, Box Elder and other coun-
| ties have done equally well.
The question is often asked the speak
! er: With the acreage being set TO fruit,
is the time not near at hand when there
will be an ovfrproduction and consequent
! losses in the business?
Il believe we should look at this matter
conservatively- Markets are being opened
! in foreign countries for our fruits, our
own population is rapidly increasing, and
! fruit is becoming q more common article
! OF diet, hence the greater consumption.
| From these sources markets are furnished
! for large percentage of the new or
chards. 1t should also be remembered
! that old orchards and districts which in
ten years past furnished large quantities
/ Of fruit have become unproductive. But
Notwithstanding all of this. there may
come a year occasionally when there Will
| be overproductiOn and low prices be real
try will follow the eternal law of the
survival of the fittest lie who will
plant what the market demands and will
put his product on the market according
TO its requirements will always have sale
for his fruit. at remunerative prices while
he who becomes a law unto himself must
take the consequences of his own rashness
and perish with others of his kind
Fellow growers while we have not at
tanned the full fruition of our ambitions
in the horticultural development of our
state, we have left the valleys and plant
ed our feet upon the sleeps, which We
shall continue to climb until the summit
Of the highest peak shall be gained
Necessary Orchard Methods.
Professor R. S. Northrup of the Agri-
cultural college gave a short talk on
| Necessary Orchard Methods" He said
that Utah fruit was equal if not super
| ior to any western fruit and probably
superior in production. He said that it
was easily superior to eastern fruit in
| quality and that it was only the in
| ferior quality of Utah fruit that was
/ in competition with eastern products.
He urged that a few varieties of the
| best quality of fruit be raised and that
the efforts of the growers be concen-
trated in increasing the quality, not the
yield of the fruit. He called attention
to the fact that in Utah and southern
Idaho in the past year over million
fruit trees had been planted and said
that when these mature the competi-
ton would be exceptionally keen for
the best market.
Success in Orcharding" was defined
by MOrOni Mortensen of Bear River as
good yield, both in quality and guam
tity and a fair compensation. He sug-
gested that the fruit growers special
! ize on fewer varieties of fruits and en-
deavor to improve the quality He also
suggested that greater care be taken
in packing and shipping the fruit, the
idea being to grade the fruit and care
fully select the best.
San Jose Scale Deadly.
One of the most interesting and in
structive addresses of the day was
| that of Professor Z. G.. Titus, ento-
mologist of the Agricultural college of
Titan, on The San Jose Scale Prob
lem" Professor Titus said that this
was one of the most dangerous para
sites that infested fruit trees and
should be eradicated at once. He Of
fered to assist the fruit growers of the
state in exteTminating the pest
The San Jose SCALE" said Professor
Titus, SIS a tiny insect about the size
of a pinhead. protected by a hard mem
brane or scale. The insect itself is
very soft and tender. 1t has a beak
nearly twelve times as long as itself
With this beak it pierces the bark of
fruit trees and sucks the sap. For
this reason it cannot be fed anything
that viii kill it.
The pest was first brought to San
Jose, Cal, in 1873, probably by James
Lick, the noted hOrticulturist who i'm
ported several Asiatic varieties of fruit
trees and the probabilities are that
some of these trees had the scale on
them. The insect is native to China
and was originally found feeding on
wild apple trees near the great wall
Some trees afflicted with the scale
We're sent from California to New Jer-
sey nurseries and from there it dissem-
mated all over the country in the fruit
raising belt. The insect hibernates so
that the only feasible time to kill II is
in winter The young insects are born
in the spring. each female bearing
from 300 to 600 young. The pest ma
lures rapidly and there are about three
generations each season.
Spray as Destroyer.
The most feasible, economical and
all-areund best method of treating
trees afflicted with San Jose scale Is to
spray them with a lime-sulphur solu-