The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-05
UT IS ALL RIGHT
so SAY The MEN ENGAGED IN THE
= BUSINESS NEAR WICHITA

Ike Dean Says He has Gone Through Has
Forty-Acre Orchard and has Not Found
Single Bud Killed by the Winter-He
Declares the Present Cold snap is a God
send to Fruit Growers-Steve Baich
SAYS the Crop is Assured, But What is
Troubling Elm is What to Do With the
Crop Without a Cannery.
Aside from crops the residents Of SOU
them Kansas are more interested IN
the fruit crop than in any other sub
.ect and for the purpose of learning
the present prospects, which 1t is gen
orally 10 be asceTtained by the 4th
of March Of each year a reporter in
Reviewed a number of prominent fruit
growers in the vicinity Of Wichita, as
co the outlook with the following result
Ike DEAN have almost forty acres
in orchard and small fruits, and VIII
ray that at no time during my resi-
dence in Kansas on the 4th Of March,
was there anything like the promise
there is now. I examined several nun
dred peach buds and did not find sin
gle dead one which had been caused
by freezing. The trees are all healthy
and the small fruit is filed with pros
pect bloom. 7 know that many per
sons who know nothing about fruit
raising, and who were anxious to see
great crop, were scared when the pres
ent cold snap came. but / want 10 say
that the present change in the atmos-
phere was the salvation of the fruit
crop, and if II Will only continue until
about March 10 that the crop will sim
ply be immense. For some weeks the
warm spring-like days was bringing
the trees along too fast and the crop
would have been lost by the storm
which is bound to come about the equi-
noxial period, but this has put a check
to its growth, and the people of Wich-
tia should get ready With their canning
factory, ifThey are going to have one,
because from the present outlook thou
sands Of bushels viii go TO waste this
year which should he saved.
Steve .Balch-Nothing like the pres
ent prospect since Towser was a pup.
This cold snap is just what was need
ed and If I had the arranging Of the
weather L would not have had il any
different. Fruit trees will be out of
sight and unable TO lift their heads
until after the fruit is gathered. This
cold weather may be a little hard on
pot atoes that have been planted, but,
It is all right in the fruit line
wish if the Wichita Commercial club
was going TO do anything about a can
ming factory they would let the fact
be nOwn now. It does seem as tho
SONS body could raise the sum of $500
and put that man Davis to work He
has had yearssof experience and is will
ing b take a work interest Just
look "a. applessSelling in Wichita at Sl50
per bu shell and yet over in the east
part of the state,the. finest apples are a
drug on the market at 40 cents per
bushel, and yet If the railroads ship
them IN they want the apples, sack
and all. When I think about the out
freigfnt rates both 10 and from
I am almost surprised that
anybody has q spark of religion, and
then 10 see what. fools we people Of the
west are is enough to mike a man
asha med of the hest country under the
sun. Just Think, here I'VE buy canned
corn, tomatoes fruit, pumpkins, all
raised in country which is too poor
TO rssise hades on; then we pay the
freight out hereS at the same time let
ting enough go to waste every year
10 feed every hungry man, woman and
ohild in the sta ba I want 70 see the
time come when Wichita will take care
Of all Abe surplus grain and vegetables
raised in the county and then stop
buying everythi ng from the east. But
started to tell you that the fruit was
al o. K. so far.
John II. Tucl:er, proprietor Of the
Fucker fruit IA nm east of the city |
Fruit is all rig 1t and there is not a |
PARTICLE of dang CT unless the thermom- |
ter should crop several degrees cold !
r. ,Iyhe present cold snap is just in /
inc toy save the. fruit and q finer pros /
,ect was never seen any place. What |
Wichita wants 30 do is to get ready /
O take care Of the fruit and vegeta- 1
lies which, are raised. I wish that |
committee of the Commercial club 4
would get a move on itself and start /
he canning factory. The snow IS |
ust the thing for the wheat and pros-s