American Fork citizen. [volume] (American Fork, Utah) 1912-1979, 1914-08-15
Shipping Grab Apples
In Car Load Lots
Harvesting Of n Good Crop of Pears
ut Good Price Commences.

The w NJ Roylance Co. shippcd a
car load containing $40 boxes of cral
apples Thursday This is LOT of
crab apples TO come from one
town and as the growers usually
have but one or two trees each
they all had to be canyassed
TO get enough to make M the car.
One lady, Mrs. Elsie Westphal. picked
twenty boxes from one tree and re-
ceived zoe per hundred lbs. for them.
Fifteen young ladies and n half doz-
en- men were busy helping to get the
carload ready
Roylanco and Co have also COM
menced TO receive Bartlett pears.
This crop promises to yield up TO-,
or "A little better, than the average
year. this season and the prices are
in the neighborhood of cents per
pound. shade better than last year
The pear blight seems to be thing
of the past With this pest out of
the way, pears are 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 raspbcrries and cars
Of jefferson plums and apricots this
year.
Roylancc Is engaging in n new in
dustry this season He has rented
twelve acres in 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
Utah can produce the best celery
on earth and proposes to ship II in
car load lots TO the high class eastern
markets II his experiments are sue
ccssful IT will open a great industry
here
If Utah fruit returns good profit
to the grower, ii must be picked and
sorted carefully and packed in an eX-
pert manner. Realizing the Inn
portance Of this, Roylance this week
rs sending out letters to the growers
from which the following are ex-
tracts
Dear Grower
The peach season will soon be here.
Are Won ready for IL? Have YOU
enough picking boxes? Have you
enough pickers to take care OF your
crop? And further--have you enough
team help to haul your peaches to
the loading point.
The growing OF fruit is past the OK
detrimental stage; this also applies to
tho picking and packing of fruit. PAT
n man i'm charge of your pickers who
understands when the peach Is ready
to pick. aud also one who viii sec
o Il that there are no small peaches
pulled from the trees smaller lhah
two inches In diameter, aud only ten
per cent of The two inch size. RICK
your trees over as often as necessary
IN Get the fruit off M the right TIME
see TO It that your peaches are pack
ID solidly In the boxes or baskets
with only first class stock. Don't de-
nend too much on someone else 10
oversee pack and grade.
Tho fact that we are going TO shlp
,ome i'm hushe baskets ana boxes
his year causes us to impress upon
YOU more forcibly than ever Tue
necessity of extreme care All uown
he line in the thinning, picking pack
ing. and hauling OF the peaches
other seasons goodly portion oil the
growers have been careless alle'
7jcking the peaches, allowing them
to remain In the sun until the Wago,,
,nme along TO gather them up Tor
hacking. We must insist thar lhS
poaches after being picked be placed
n the shade 10 keep the fruit as coo'
rs possihle This Is one OF the lIn
nortant parts bearing upon the Keep
Inc quality of the peaches