The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1848-03-10
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Profits a Frat CaHure.-b. q,
Boswell in the lastJanuary number Of
theHorticvlturist enuInerates num-
her of items exhibiting the profits
Of Fruit culture. We should like to
give the article, item for item, but
our limits will not permit. We there
fore condense it in the following:
sc. A. Gable, OF Cleveland, has
an orchard of an hundred cherry
trees now % years old.--In the year
1916, his crop sold for upwards OF
one thousand dollars. Mr.. c mana
ecs his orchard better than any 9TH
er person in the Union, SO far rs my
knowledge extends. The remains
of a cherry orchard numbering 10
trees near Philadelphia furnish fruit
for sales to upw wards eighty dollars
per day during their season. TWEEN
ty apple trees Early Red Streak
and Early Queen varieties, in 1916,
produced 800 bushels of fruit that
sold for two hundred and twenty-five
dollars. One grape vine Fox
Grape) has never been pruned, and
now covers the top of fourteen apple
trees, and produces yearly seventy
6ve bushels of fruit.
One'Washington' plum tree inPhil-
adelphia produces annually six BUSH
els Of fruit valued at ten dollars per
bushel.
Three eighths ofan acre inVineyard
Of Isabella and Catawba grapes four
years old, has produced fruit the sale
of which brought three hundred dol
lars, at eight cents per pound.
One Catawba grape vine, at West
Chester, Pa, produces yearly ten
bushels Of grapes, valued at forty
dollars.
One Blue Gage plum tree in Phil
adelphia produces ten bushels offruit
I in a season.
One Gooseberry plant furnished
this past season thirteen quarts OF
fruit.
Two rows of Gooseberry plants,
one hundred and fifty feet long, fur
nished six bushels offruit at one time,
that sold for twenty four dollars.
Two Apricot trees have yielded
yearly FIVE bushels each.
Four Tcwksbury Winter Blush
Apple trees in lSi6 produced one
hundred and forty market baskets
of apples. Without any extra care,
ninety baskets oftliose were kept un-
til late in the spring of 1917, when
they readily sold for 81 baskat.
A fruit grower of Fishkill landing,
NY. has gathered fifteen barrels Of
Idly apples from one tree and sold
them for forty-fve dollars.
Mr.. Joseph Robinson, of New
Hampshire has an orchard, planted
and raised by himself, covering but
two acres OF land, the produce OF
which this year is nine hundred
bushels exclusive o. second pick
ing of inferior quality.--Mr. r. has
sold four hundred for cash down, at
$l.00 per bushel, reserving five hun
dred bushels for future sale. The
entire income this year will not be
below$l000, and all at far less labor
than is bestowed upon a small farm
Yet with all these facts it is doubt.
full if any more attention will be Civ.
en- to fruit growing. "Many cult
vators neglect setting out fruit trees
from a natural negligence; others dis
like to pay twenty Ave or fifty cents
for fine tree; others again are a.
fraid that every body will go to fruit
growing, and bring down the price to
almost nothing. But we would ask
if there is any more danger of every
body commencing on a large scale
the culture Of fruit, than there is that
every body will commence the rails.
ing OF onions, or the making of razor
strops, or the cultivation of roses p"
Gla.ed flower pots are totally unfit