The Green Forest tribune., 1901-10-26
HUGH INTEREST IN FRUIT.
Large Orchards Will Be Planted
 Next Spring.

movement among the land own CTS of this locality to put out large orchards next year is a factthat is highly pleasing to 1'HE TRIBUNE publishers, who have endeayored to stir up an enthusiasm on this subject for the past dozen years. If present indications hold good the new orchards in Carroll county will be numbered by the hundreds.
 The apple crop which. is ssnow being harvested and marketed from the orchards in this locality has demonstrated to the most skeptical that there is millions in the fruit industry for this coun- try, and accordingly the matter of fruit raising is going to excite
 widespread attention.
 The question of transportation having been solved, there is nothing that stands between the farmers of Carroll county and a degree of prosperity the like of which the old-timer has scarcely ever dreamed.
 It is a fact that many orchards of this county will this year not only pay for the cost of the trees and caring for them up to this lime, but will also pay the cost of the Iand upon which the trees are planted. This is notably true in one instance at Berryville. Dr. w. F. George of that place a few years ago put out an orchard of 40 acres of apple trees, the crop from which this year netted him a profit of more than S200 at oNe what the orchard has cost him, including the price paid for the land. While this statement ls almost startling, it is true in many other instances.
 If this result can be experi- enced from our orchards poor and neglected as they are, how much greater can the profit be made by scientific orcharding, with the advantage of an organi zed effort to secure shipping ia cilities and markets?
 There is no fruit famine over the country this year, the fruit growers of Washington and Ben- ton counties who have been in the business since the com- pletion of the Frisco road through that section, say that neither the price nor the quality of the fruit is above the average this year. The apple market is always steady and the price has always been such as to insure a handsome profit to the producer.
 On June 29 last THE TRIBUNE published an interview with H. Y. King, proprietor of the Rog- CTS cold storage plant, in which Mr. King estimated that not less than 1000 cars of apples would be shipped from Benton county this year. Estimating at the low price of S1 .00 a barrel this would bring the apple raisers of Benton county S160, 1000. Recent reports from Benton's crop show that MT. Kings figures were entirely conservative. From the town of Rogers alone there has been i shipped this year 167 cars of ap- fS,les, while 62 car loads have al ready been placed in cold stor- age and still the crop in that To- cality is not exhausted. Of the shipment32 cars have been of evaporated apples, which have brought an average price of per- haps S1500 car, or a sum al most $50, 100000, while the price paid for green apples has been | nearer s2 a barrel than S1, as estimated by -Mr. King. The shipments from Rogers possibly amounts to one-sixth the apple nroducts of Benton county. Thus, it can easily be seen that the apple crop of Benton county this year will be very close to the value of half a million dollars, to say nothing of other fruits, which, all told, will amount to many thousands of dollars. These figures are mentioned sim