Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-22
FRUIT GROWERS
ORGANIZATIONS
,hls Address Of John F. Moore OF
a orand Junction Before HortI-
cultural Convention.
M, wIDTsoE ON EDUCATION.
,,,,rc should be an Integral Part
or the school Curriculum
OF the State.

n,. ,hlef interest In yesterdays SEES
49,, ~ tho horticultural convention
S arcd IN the splendid address on
,vrMt Growers Organizations" deiiv-
Nv John r. Moore. manager Of the
v,a Junction Fruit Growers ASSOC
,..on and the able address OF DR..
yonn A. widtsoe, president OF the asri-
cultural oohese' on
cation"
BUSINESS MEETING.
A. the business meeting held between
ono two sessions yesterday afternoon.
~. following officers were elected
rras,dent, James G.. Duffin, OF Provo;
,ica president, Moroni Mortensen, Bear
river city; secretary, Joseph IA. Parry,
ralt Lake City; county vice presidents,
IA n Miller of Syracuse, Davis coun-
~, j. P. Christensen Of Brigham city.
1nxslder county; Nephi Mortensen oil
Iovsn Cache county: Roy Rasmussen
~ Ogden, Weber county James M.
y,sher Calders station, Salt Lake
nnrnty. r. d. Wadley of Pleasant
Grove Utah county; Joseph r. Porter,
Morgan City, Morgan county; j. j.
Hansen, Ferron, Emery county; James
Anderson, Oak City, Willard county;
Toseph II. Akin. st. George Washing
Ian county. Hans j. Brown, Mount
pleasant. Sanpete county; Q. z. wash
burn, Monroe, Sewer county; w a..
crook, Heber City, Wasatch county;
Robert Beagley, Nephi, Juab county;
william Hershey, Price, Carbon county;
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+ Beard, Milford, Beaver county; ex-
scurive committee, James G. Dufiin Of
Provo. c. A. Hickenlooper of View
Provo. C. A. Hickenlooper of View.
". o. Knudsen of Brigham City, Prof.
r s Northrop, and DIR. e. ID. Ball of
Logan
la Verkin, president of the state board
Of horticulture, was made honorary
president OF the Utah horticultural So
cety for life.
BY a standing vote the society also
made John F. Moore, manager of the
Grand Junction Fruit Growers associa-
ton an honorary member.
The report of the resolutions commit
tee was adopted without dissent. The
principal resolution was that pledging
the support of the members OF the Utah
Horticultural society for the enactment
Of law forbidding the sale of wormy
or infected fruit, except for use as a
by-product. and making the Offering for
sale of such fruit misdemeanor.
Foreign horticultural schemes were
denounced as questionable enterprises
IN which Utah capital should not be in
vested. as II could be used TO better adj
vantage at home where 1t would be
safer and more certain of results.
The society goes on record as favor
ing the policy of the government in pre-
serving the forests. and commends the
action OF the state land board In en-
cOuraging irrigation throughout the
state 1t recommends the destruction
of all diseased fruit trees. and con-
graduates the fruitgrowers OF the state
on the excellent showing made at the
Sacramento Irrigation congress.
TUESDAY AFTERNOON SESSION.
The Improvement of present varieties
Of fruits was discussed briefly by Prof.
Henry Crockett, assistant horticulture
ist of the Agricultural college. The
success of the fruit industry was de-
pendent upon the growing of large fine
fruit The foundation of this work, he
said lies in the nursery. Stock should
there be propagated from producing
trees bearing the kind of fruit most de-
srable.
The professor held that propagating
from bearing trees OF recognized merit
produced better stock for planting out
an orchard than IL the trees were prop
agated from immature wood taken from
the nursery row.
The continued propagation of nursery
stock from the nursery row, like the
inhreeding of livestock, lessened the vi
tality Of the trees, deferred the bearing
period of the trees indefinitely, and was
the cause of innumerable mistakes as to
varieties adding to the uncertainty at
snding the growing orchard.
Dr. Ira D. Cardiff OF the University
Of Utah. discussed further the ques-
ton Of Improvement of plant breeds
lyselection of sports, by crossing, and
by breeding from plants possessing dis
iinct and special merit over others OF
its kind.
FRUIT GROWERS.
Mr. John f. Moore, manager of the
Fruit Growers association OF Grand
Junction. Colo, was next introduced
and gave an interesting and practical
address on the benefits and advantages
Fruit Growers Organizations. The
association in Grand Junction. he said
Is composed of some 500 members. AZ
OF whom are loyal to the association
and It's directors. and there were nc
Knockers, The first essential to the
sueces Of an association of fruit
growers, he said, is a good board OF
directors and the fewer in number the
better. The directors should select
rs manager the best man to be had
iTespective of religious or political
anlliatIon or knship; he should he Sc.
lected solely on merit. Should he moi
make good, get another. When the
Grand Junction growers started In
business there was no railroad ratei
specially helpful to the fruit Industry
After working with the railroads 4
year or two. they succeeded In gettlnl
equitable freight and refrigerator
rates TO outside markets.
The sale ana distribution OF the frui
the business end Of fruit growing
ne most important connected with
me Industry. only a strong and wei
managed association can Keep II
Touch with and be fully informed of
Inc outside market and its conditions
10 start AN association II is neoessar,
10 nave so much business that you cal