The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-16

Personally. I had at the Pan-Amer-
lean exposition in September 1901, many
ally COMPARED them with the best east
ern grown Of the same variety, and they
were IN all outward ways far superior.
A New York apple grower said. We can
not grow Jonathans like yours So. II
We stick to cur tried varieties. we must
lead the world on those Varieties ana
as the above varieties are the greae
shippers we must largely supply tbs
world As an illustration. Judge Fred
Wellhouse. commonly called the apple
king, shipped twenty-five carloads III
one train, all Ben Davis, which had
been sold to a New York buyer.
The color. flavor texture. size. form
handling and keeping qualities of west
ern apples is by competent judges de-
clared to be better than the same quail
ties in eastern apples of the same va
peTlor varieties grown east that are nO%
grown west. but compared with the
great quantity Of apples used, such va
rietles do not cut much ice Their loss
from the general markets would scarce-
" be noticed Besides, there IS much
in a name and eastern folks get in a
rut. get used TO a name. and stick to
it. II this We're not so thousands OF
not be sold for Jonathan. They look
like Jonathan. and taste like Jonathan
70 the city bred man. who bought them
Tor Jonathan So Of the Honorable Ben
5arlln Davis in the south When he gels
DelOW the Mason and Dixon line he
must sell for Gano. and the southerner
who scorns to eat the plebian Ben Dd-
VS. buys him under the alias as (sano.
pays for him as Gano, and eats him in
commence as GanO. while cOndemninG
Ben Davis as unfit for a gentleman to
eat and an insult to offer to his guest /;
everybody likes to be hurnbugged If rs
can only have his own way In thu
last lew years the people Of the eastern
hemisphere have awakened to the
knowledge that the apple is the king OF
fruits. As the Chinaman will give five
pounds Of choice tea for one pound or
american sage leaves. so the orange and
panama grower win give back load of
MS Tru1t for handful Of ripe apples.
even II Of the Ben Davis variety. All
troplea! fruits clcy the appetite in time.
humanity never tires of eating Coon
apples These eastern continents have
scarcely begun to eat apples. many
thousands of their people probably
never yet tasted an apple; and we must
supply their wants
The Eastern market cotild not he f,,1.
~ supplied if we sent our entire prod
uet abroad SO why should we fear over
production Mr.. WelIhouse Who has
been growing apples for many years
says he never has passed through a
season but what he could have sold as
many apples again as he had" He new
er lost any for lack of a market Is
there money in it, Well. Mr.. Well
house in one year sold the apples from
43s acres of orchard at a profit of over
$4,000, and had the orchard left. / make
this last remark because when the hog
breeder or the cattle feeder sells his
stock his pens and corraIs are empty
When the corn or wheat grover sells
his product the bin is empty and he
must begin at the bottom again but
when the fruit grower sells his fruit
the trees are left. and for a life time
they improve and increase in value
Cattle range over .acreages for pasture
that would grow more money in apnlas
than the cattle would bring at 81 per
pound. and the trees do not have to be
fed all winter the products from an
equal area al a cost Of labor and money
requiring the returns Of another SINH
lar area. But the trees stand ont the
and IN spring are worth a dollar apiece
more than the preceding spring: for
courts have repeatedly given verdfcts
against railroads and other accidental
orchard destroyers at 81 per year per
tree; which is fair estimate. at least
until the tree is ten years old and
from then onward the value is ali they
viii bring. If you were to set out an
orchard of say 100 first-class trees in q
first-ciass manner and every one grew
finely and the orchard had been waIl
tended and your nife and children talk
!
you allow it to be destroyed for s100e
Why your farm is worth two or three
hundred dollars mere on account Of
this one improvement. add the same
figures year after year and in the third.
fourth. or fifth year you bring TO your
home crop Of apples worth 800 tafr.
WInans sold his apples on the trees. $50
acres five years planted for $4,000.
which is quadrupled as the trees get an
added year on and the orchard soon be
comes too valuable to figure upon Put
a similar value on 1000 acres and what
have we2 With fifty trees per acre, =
600 acres means $4,000 value If the
land cost s25 per acre or $4,000 and the
trees cost cents each, or So 500, and
the planting and care the first year cost
/ 81 per acre. or $1,000. taxes and Incl
dents $500 more. making a total cost Of
$50 GOO on the same basis as the little
orchard. you have an orchard worth all
it cost and $1,000 more all in one year;
and the second year. the land being
paid for. the orchard IS worth 100000
This is a fair estimate. If the trees were
wei chosen and the work well done,
Such an orchard would soon make some
one a millionaire.
What about faiiures3 Well. whal
about dead caktIe7 What about cattle