The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-02-24


a24 Kaufman st., PHILADELPHIA, Pa
We ship as much as 10000, barrels of APP
pies month to Europe, and Australia.
selling at $3.50 to $500 per barrel. Mil
lions of pounds are exported and sent to
foreign countries. Over 50, 500, 900 worth
of dried fruits are sold in Europe in one
year.
These facts show that fruit culture has
become an important factor in the pro-
ductive industries of this country and in
the very nature of the case it must in
crease in Importance as the years go by.
believe that an acre of land in bear
ing fruit will yield a crater and more
certain profit on the investment than any
other use to which it can be devoted,
and with less human toll and life friction.
Fruit growing is a delightful healthy
and elevating business. Continued associ-
alton with natures best works develop
the moral and intellectual faculties, gives
buoyancy to the spirits and elasticity
and strength to the physical powers. 1t is
an established foct that fruit culture in
creases with the civilization, intelligence
and morality of any people. The wonder
full acheivment in the production of fruit
in our day, is due and dependant in a
large measure upon the labors of other
hands that have planted and cared for
orchards and vineyards in other years,
for an orchard is not the product of a
year, but requires many years of toll and
waiting before the fruit appears, to re-
ward the laborer, and very often one
generation plants and another generation
gathers the fruit. AS we are benefited
by the labor of our ancestors, let us be
found doing our part in planting aud
rearing that those who come after us
may be benefited by our labors as we
have beer supplied by the labor of others.
One secret of our success i'll fruit
growing is found III our selection of va
rieties. We are noted for the best stand
ards of fruit and the man who is enter
ing upon the occupation of fruit growing
will do we'll to shun the mistakes that
many others have made of selecting to
many new varieties, for a man can always
find sale for the old standards as Rhode
Island Greening, Ohio Nonpareil. Grimes
Golden, Maiden Blush, Belmont and
Rambo and perhaps a very few other va
rieties that have stood the test of time
and like Old Hundred or Antioch or st.
Thomas in the Realm of music, out live
the novelties that only requie time to
prove their inferiority. Let us then en-
courage the cultivation of fruit, giving
the influence of our society to aid the
the new beginner in escaping the mis-
takes we have made in our efforts and let
us hope the time may come when every
American citizen shall sit beneath his
own grapevine and be abunbantly sup
piled by his own apple and other fruit
trees. n. +. MoFFITT.
QUESTION BOX:
Query-How should peaches be trimmed
to insure best results.
Mr.. c. w. Faust shook or picked all he
could see on the trees and thought he
made money.
Mr.. Krider quoted Mr. N. II. Albaugh
as saying that in their southern orchards
they put 12O men in their orchards to
thin out the fruit.
Mr.. Roth quotes NJ. Hale, the author
of Hale's Early Peach, to the affect that
peaches should be thinned so as to stand
about six inches apart on the trees.
Query will it pay to provide a
winter mulch of manure for Asparagus
beds either for protection or as fertil'
izer?
Mr.. Wise says yes for both objects.
Mr.. Roth gets the same result by deeI
cultivation, to which Mr.. Wise assents.
No, 3.-Can any one explain the Camp
bell system of farming in the Arid re
gions of the west2
Mr., Wise thinks the Campbell system
of farming is being promulgated by some
Real Estate agent who has Arid land tc
sell. There is too much good land to bC
had, for any Ohio man to think of going
to the western deserts.
Mr.. McGregor thinks it we'll to lool
at all the facts in the case, and proceeded
to show how the desert wastes Of Kansa
under cultivation and the planting o
forests are being made to "bloom an'
blossom like the rose.'
Query MAY peaches be protected il
winter rby shading or whitening tn
hmbs2
Mr.. Faust thinks that whitening o
whitewashing limbs might be ofso us
Mr.. Wise quoted from records of tn
State reports, in favor of whitewashiu
bodies and limbs of trees as it retard
the progress of buds and may save thet
from spring frosts.
STANDING COMMITTEES;
Orchard.-M Bitter finds the orchard
in good shape. Examined the Alexande
peach tree and found the fruit all righ
and as that is one Of the tenderest vari'