Omaha daily bee., 1898-10-01
WHERE APPLES ARE RAISED
Southwestern Iown in FaVorabIy Lo-
Gated for Fruit Growers.

southwestern Iown is FaVorabIy Lo-
Gated for Fruit Growers.
SIOUX CITY, Sept. 3O.-(Special mo
section of the country has produced better
apples this year than has the territory con
tiguous to Sioux City, including north
western Iowa, northeastern Nebraska and
southeastern South Dakota" declared |. n.
Stone before he took a train for Ponca,
Neb., at which place he has large apple
orchard.
Mr. Stone is quite enthusiastic over the
possibilities of this section for apple grow
ing He says the soil and the climate are
well adapted to the production of apples,
and he thinks the prospects for the devel-
opment of the industry are bright. In
past years it seems, some of the fruit
growers of this vicinity became discouraged
through the lack of success in growing ap-
pies and came to the conclusion that the
conditions here are not suitable for apple
growing, MIR Stone declares now that there
is not section in the country which has
produced as good an apple crop this year
as has the Sioux City territory.
There are 5000 apple trees in Sherwood's s
orchard near Ponca, Neb, which is the
apple field in which Mr. Stone is inter
ested with Day Bros of Ponca About one
half of the trees bore fruit this year. the
other half being yet too young. On trees
from ten to twelve years old the yield was
from three to six bushels per tree, which
is an excellent yield About fifteen var-
cites OF apples are grown in this orchard,
the most prominent varieties being as fol-
lows: Duchess of Gutenberg, Wealthy, Ben
Davis, Snow, Walbridge, Jonathan, Jean
nette and Haas.
All the apples which have been taken
from the Sherwood orchard have been sold
to a local commission house. This firm
has received apples this year from Mich-
gan, Missouri and other sections, but the
buyer assured Mr.. Stone that only one ship
ment of apples received this year could
compare with the fruit which came from
the Ponca farm. The apples of which the
commission man spoke had come from Hur-
ley, S. D., where some fine fruit has been
grown this season. Michigan and Missouri
apples" said Mr.. Stone, seemingly are out
cassed this year by South Dakota, Ne
braska and Iowa apples.
"As for the unusual success with which
apple growers have met this year" he said
81 would say 1t is due largely to two
causes, besides the excellence of the soil
and climate We have had no trouble what
ever with bugs, which sometimes play
havoc with apple crops, This section of the
country is little bothered by insects. An
other thing, we have had no frosts to injure
the growth of the fruit. Everything has
been conducive to the best success.
"To my mind" continued Stone, "ths
part of the country has a future before it
as an apple growing section, if fruit grow
ers will only take hold Of the matter and
take advantage of the conditions If they
have met with discouragements in the past,
it was because they did not have the benefit
of the experience of which they can now
avail themselves Some tried to grow ten
der varieties of the fruit here and met with
failure because the conditions were not
adapted to such varieties 1t has since
been found, however, that other varieties
can be grown here with success and great
success, too"