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

Everybody loves a lover does not
compare for one moment with every
body loves fruit. Looking at beautiful
fruit. and eating delicious fruits have
kept thousands Of people out of the in
sane hospitals and prolonged the lives
Of millions Of people. Who dare to at
tempt to raise children, the future citi-
zens of this great Republic, on bacon,
hominy. corn bread, soda biscuit and
strong coffee2 If parents try such
senseless tactics the law should step in;
the children must and should have
fruit Thus only can we expect the
clear bright eye, the warm cheek, the
red lip. the winning smile, the elastic
step. Hygienists may pirate of cereal
foods, pre-digeSted mixtures and sand,
saltpeIer or ground glass for health;
water cures may advise daily or hourly
baths; athletes may write books about
gymnastic exercise walking, riding or
the trapeze, physicians may order the
noun fains. the springs. hot or cold,
Florida, California, West Indies OF a
trip to Eur0p@but we have at home
the greatest. pleasantest and easiest TO
take cure-a1l, namely fruit Fruit for
byea kfasf. fruit for dinner, fruit for
supper-fruit. fruit. fruit. And while
eating between meals is condemned. eV-
cry one but a chronic dyspeptie knows
the pleasure of one or more ripe apples
between meals and the G. D. would be
benefited BY a similar diet. If gOur-
NETS and city midnight Jewellers would
eat apples or other fruit instead OF
grilled Holsters and fried oysters. they
would awake in better form next day
Suppose we cat one apple each per day,
three hundred and sixty-hye appfes
each per year. which would be about
one barrel. it would require eighty mil
lion barrels OF apples TO 90 tHAs Hs1aoA
each year
Besides this we try to supply to some
extent the European market oy SNIP
ping a few millions of barrels over there
Der wear, and pay no attention TO our
neiehbor. Mexico, in whose principal
city apples sell 1t one dollar per Dozen
The world is only beginning 70 eat ap-
niles and Arneriea-the United states OIL
America-the western central states -
the United States of Anerica-fntst
rrepare to meet this demand II II
rains dollars, let US have our hats ana
aprons held out to catch our snare anu
don't be bashfui: but hold big nat OF
4 big apron In other words why not
r,lant more fruit trees7 Why not use
the land for the highest and best pur-
pose for which land was formed ms
is work for the women as Wen as the
men Some tell US that an apple got
Eve into trouble. while I think II was
not such an apple as we grow now N
these United States, yet II L were a Wo-
man I would get my revenge oy inter
pstfng myself in growing apples. some
women do. Farmers wives have saved
their egg and butter money and bought
trees when the husbands were either too
shiftless too neglectful or too hard up
to purchase them fwithout curtail1ng
his tohaeco9 The world must have ap-
rIes We must have eighty million bar
rels and sooner or later two or three
times eighty million barrels, for the
women and men, the girls and boys, OF
these glorious United States No school
lunch pail. no workman's dinner pail
no clerks lunch box IS complete. three
hundred times in the year. without an
ample. a pear or a peach as an essential
part Of its contents. No ship in our
navy no vessel in our merchant mar
rine. no whaIer, no Sealer OF fishing yes
sci IS complete without barrels OF fresh
appleS and boxes Of dried apples. be-
sides the canned fruits and the cider
vinegar and products picked in cider
vinegar How could the world live with
out the apple2 This brings to my mind
the fellow who fears the planting Of
fruit trees IS being overdone; the faint
hearted farmer who timorously puts cut
TOO fruit trees. and could not be in
duced to put out another hundred, as
he would not know what to do with
them
This brings up yet another thought:
that is that too much is often not
enough. Take Maiden Blush apples. for
instance. they are our best summer ap-
PIE and are in great demand II you
have fifty trees and your neighbors
have each a few. you viii have TOO
many for the local market. and not
enough 10 ship and you will get a small
price for what you sell. and great guam
titles go TO waste. and you are discour-
aged What IS the remedy It IS a
heroic. one Put out thousand trees
or a thousand acres, of Maiden Blush,
and get rich They are fine shippers,
and VIII go north in car loads to great
apple growing states and sell in the
home of the northern apple. because