The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1914-08-15
Shipping Grab Apples
In Car Load Lots
harvesting Of u Good Crop of pe,rs
at Good Price Commences.

The w NJ Roylancc Co Skinned n
car load containing $40 boxes of crab
apples Thursday This is lot Of
crab apples TO come from ono
town and as the growers usually
have bat one or two trees each
they all had to be canvasscd
to get enough to make up the car
One lady. Mrs Elsie westphaI, picked
twenty boxes from one tree and re-
ceivod soc per hundred lbs for them
Fifteen young ladies and n half doz-
en- men we're busy helping to get the
carload ready.
Roylance and Co. have also com
mcnced to receive Bartlett pears.
This crop promises TO yield up to,
or little better, than the average
year this season, and the prices arc
in the neighborhood of . cents per
pound, a shade better than last year.
The pear blight seems 10 be a thing
of the past With this pest out of
the way, pears arc one of the best
fruit crops grown in this locality.
Pear packing will be the chief fruit
activity for the next two weeks.
This company has this year ship
ped $ cars of raspberrics and Z cars
of Jefferson plums and apricots this
year
Roylancc Is engaging In q new in
dustry this season. lie has rented
twelve acres i'm this vicinity and plant
ed it TO celery and also planted about
nine acres to onions. both of which
crops are doing fine and promises
to be great successes. He thinks that
Ctah can produce the best celery
on earth and proposes to ship it In
car load lots to the high class eastern
markets. II his experiments are sue
cessful Il will open great industry
here
If Utah fruit returns . good profit
to the grover, IT must be- picked and
sorted carefully and packed in an eX-
pert manner Realizing the i'm
portance Of this, Roylauce this week
Is sending out letters 10 the growers
from which tho following arc OK
tracts
Dear Grower
Tho peach season will soon be- here.
Are YOU ready for It? Have You
enough picking boxes? Have you
enough pickers to take care OF your
crop? And further-haye you enough
team help TO haul your peaches to
the loading point
The growing Of fruit Is past the cN-
pcrimcntal stage; this also applies to
the picking and packing Of fruit lul
man in charge of Your pickers Who
understands whom the peach is ready
TO pick. and also ono who VIII see
20 II that there are 40 small peaches
pulled from the trees smaller lhah
two inches In diameter and only ten
nor cont uf The two inch size. PICK
your trees over as often as necessary
Ia get tho fruit OF ut the right time
soc to II that your peaches arc pack.
cd solidly m tine boxes on hnskct'
with Gully first class stock Don d'-
pend too much on someone else ''
Oversee pack aud fradc'
The fact that we are going TO silli
some m bushol baskets ana boAe'
this year causes us to impress upon
YOU moro forcibly than ever ina
necessity Of extreme care an uoWi
he line In the thinning, picking pack
ing. and hauling of the peaches
other seasons a goodly portion OF inc
growers have been careless ai'ei
9irkipg tho peaches, allowing then
to remain in the sun until the wagol
came along to gather them up Ion
nacling We must insist that TN,
peaches after being picked be place.
m Tho shade TO Keep the fruit as COO
as possibc. This is one ct the IN
poriant parts bearing upon the Keep
ing quality of the peaches