The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-13

Personally. I had at the Pan-Amer- !
lean exposition in September, 1901, many
plates of the above apples and person.
ally compared them with the best east
ern grown of the same variety, and they
We're in all outward ways far superior.
A New York apple grower said, We can
not grow Jonathans like yours" SO, II
we stick to our tried varieties, we must
lead the world on those varieties; ana
as the above varieties are the great
shippers we must largely supply this
world. AS an illustration. Judge Fred
Wellhouse. commonly called the apple
king" shipped twenty-five carloads in
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 app IS is by competent judges de-
clared to be better than the same quail
ties in eastern apples of the same va
rieties. To be sure. there are some su-
perior varieties grown east that are noN
grown west, but compared with the
great quantity Of apples used, such va
rieties do not cut much ice'' Their loss
from the general markets would scarce
" be noticed. Besides, there is much
in 4 name, and eastern folks get in a
rut. get used TO a name, and stick to
it. If this were not so thousands of
barrels of western Gano apples would
not be sold for Jonathan They look
like Jonathan, and taste like Jonathan,
to the city bred man. who bought them
Jamln Davis in the south When he gets
below the Mason and Dixon line he
must sell for Gan0, and the southerner
who seOrns to eat the plebian Ben Da-
pays for him as Gano, and eats him in
confluence as CanO, while condemning
Ben Davis as unfit for a gentleman to
eat and ar insult to offer TO his guest
everybody likes to be hunbugged if he
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 will give back load of
MS fruit for a handful Of ripe apples
even if of the Ben Davis variety. All
tropical fruits clOy the appetite in time;
humanity never tires of eating gooo
apples. These eastern continents have
scarcely begun to eat apples. many
thousands of their people probably
never yet tasted an apple: and we musr
supply their wants.
The Eastern market could not be full
" supplied if we sent our entire prod
uet abroad. so why should we fear over
production. Mr.. Wellhouse 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 nev-
er lost any for lack of market. Is
/ tAACiC 1i4Oucy III IL W ell, Mr.. Well
house in one year sold the apples from
4Sl acres of orchard at a profit of over
$4,000, and had the orchard left I make
this last remark because when the hog
breeder or the cattle feeder sells his
stock his pens and corrals are empty.
When the corn or wheat grower 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 apples
than the cattle would bring at ST per
pound, and the trees do not have to be
fed all winter the products from an
equal area at d cost of labor and money
requiring the returns of another SINH
i lar area. But the trees stand out the
winter at not a dollar per acre expense
and in spring are worth a dollar apiece
more than the preceding spring: for
courts have repeatedly given verdicts
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 all they
will bring. If you were to set out an
orchard of say 100 frsf-class trees in d
/ flrst-class manner, and every one grew
finely and the orchard had been well
i tended and your wife and children talk
4 ed happily with you about II, would
I you allow it to be destroyed for 800 ?
Why your farm is worth two or three
hundred dollars more 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 a crop of apples worth 500 (AIr.
Winans sold his apples on the trees. $40
acres five years planted, for s16,000),
which is quadrupled as the trees get IN
added year on and the orchard soon be-
I comes too valuable to figure upon. Put
a similar value on I 900 acres and what
+ have .ANe2 With fifty trees Der acre, 1,
600 acres means $4,000 value. If the
land cost S25 per acre or $4,000, and the
trees cost cents each. or $500; and
the planting and care the first year cost
50 per acre. or $1,000. taxes and Incl
dents g. 500 more. making a total cost OF
S33 900 on the same basis as the little
orchard, you have an orchard worth al
it cost and ST. 600 more all in one year;
and the second year. the land being
paid for, the orchard f worth 800 600
This is a fair estimate. if the trees were
well chosen and the work well done
Such an orchard would soon make sons
one a millionaire.
What about failures2 Well VIVA
about dead cattle2 What about cattle