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Bulletin No. 249 - Farm Versus Village Living In Utah, Joseph A. Geddes
Bulletin No. 249 - Farm Versus Village Living In Utah, Joseph A. Geddes
UAES Bulletins
This is the first of a series of bulletins based on a study of Utah village life begun in 1927. The purpose of the investigation was to determine, under prevailing conditions, whether for farm people farm living is less desirable than village living. Four type villages were selected in as many counties for field studies.
Bulletin No. 245 - Cherry Pollination Studies In Utah, Francis M. Coe
Bulletin No. 245 - Cherry Pollination Studies In Utah, Francis M. Coe
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The cherry is rapidly becoming Utah's most important fruit crop. According to the 1930 census, there were 110,050 bearing and 114,230 non-bearing cherry trees in Utah orchards. Most of these trees are sweet cherries, the newer plantings consisting mainly of Bing and Lambert trees, although Napoleon predominated in the older plantings.
The problem of pollination is of more importance with the cherry than with other- fruits, because of the large number of individual fruits required to make a crop and because of the self-sterility and intersterility shown by the major commercial sweet varieties.
As has been shown by the investigations …