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

fed everything in sight and then selling
for less than they were worth q year
previous? What about wheat failures.
and corn failures? Every business that
is honorable and worth following has
its risks. but as remarked before, the
orchard stays on hand. and it is we'll
established fact that when fruit trees
fail to set fruit and have whole sea-
son free from the drain q crop of fruit
would make on them. the trees prepare
for a big crop the year following, and Al
all the fruit buds Of our fruit trees
are formed during the summer OF one
year for the fruit of the next. it is per=
fectly safe to count on a good crop OF
fruit the year following complete
failure. In no other line can this be
said with any surety While every line
of honest production may, to some ex-
tent, be fascinating, nothing IS more 50
than fruit growing. To plant seed, or
make q graft, or place a tiny bud in q
seeding. and then watch nature maks
a noble tree. with beautiful and perfect
foliage, followed in q few months with
sweet smelling, exqu1sitely colored and
beautifully formed flowers. TO see these
der your very eyes increases in size and,
bathed with the dews of autumn ana
kissed by the midday sun, becomes the
fascinating apple What is a farmer
boys boyhood worth without the glories
and the aches. of the orchard and tbs
aoDle2 Thousands who read this viii
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neighbours orchard1 near the old child
hood home. and wonder whether the
old Grannywinkle, or the Russell, or the
] Poundsveet or Early Harvest apple
trees still live. and whether other boys
and girls get out in the early morning
/ to get the fruit, rIpened and mellowsd
over night
If the old orchard brings such pleas
ant memories. why. should not you pre-
pare such memories for your boy?
! Money seeking investment is tempted
4 by get-rich-quick schemes but planting
an apple orchard, investing in fruit
culture. IS a conservative, safe and sure
investment; aside from the fruit the in
creased value Of land devoted to fruit
trees and the enhanced value of adiofn~
/ ing lands, fully reoays the investment.
There are millions of acres in the mid
die west in Kansas. Arkansas and Mis-
souri,, that are peculiarly adapted ana
/ conveniently located for fruit cultures
much Of this land, especially in Arkan-
Sas and central Missouri Is held at
nominal prices of from SO to $40 per
acre, and where specially located as to
railroad and town facilities at $40 to $2S
per acre. These prices will not long
/ hold good. Large tracts are now being
/ purchased and planted and the great
show of fruits to be given at the
worlds fair in st. Louis will create a
demand that will absorb all the rhean
/ lands. The companies referred to above
! differ somewhat in their makeup. bifk
all have the same object in view
growing and marketing fruit and maxi
ing good dividends for stockholders IF
! these companies are handled by honest
men, If the land titles are perfect. II
4 thorough, practical fruit growers are
chosen as superintendent, and accounts
are carefully kept; if fOOlishness is
eschewed and common sense obtains.
the orchard investment viii cause less
anxiety and fewer wrinkles and bring
surer ana happier returns than oil or
gas or mining / lately had the pleasure
of an interesting talk with Mr. w NJ
Sims. OF st. Louis. who told me CONF
Danv (the Central Ozark Fruit COM
pany1 had been formed in Topeka con-
sisting of E. W. Poindexter presidents
! DR.. Warner, vice president; NJ c. Hol-
! man. treasurer. NJ D. Henderson Sec
/ rotary, to put out 1000 acres of appIs
trees filed in between with Elberta
1 peach trees and dwarf pear trees. to be-
/ removed when the apple trees need the
room
The names of the above officers ought
to be to the people of Topeka a sum-
Gent guarantee that business ability
and strict honesty will prevail The
lands acquired are in Webster county.
i Missouri, on the Frisco railway eleven
miles northeast Of Springfield in a
famous apple region.
II we cannot locate this orchard in
Kansas we can at least have the direc-
tory and most of the stockholders here.
Mr.. Sims says the company IS capital
lied at 100000 to be divided into
Sndfes OF 81 each. IneSe shares are Of
fered in three ways. At 20 cents cash,
at % cents-5 cents payable at purchase
and 1 cent per month for twenty
months. Or at 81 per share for stock
guaranteed and drawing from date OF
purchase 6 per cent. Thus parties with
small means can get say 100 shares
which is the least they desire to sell on
Payment of go, or on payment of So
and monthly installment of 81 per
month for twenty months, for 500
for 100 shares fully guaranteeing by
strong financial companies s per cent
interest, this latter giving a good inter-
est bearing investment not depending
upon the vicissitudes of climate or any
of the uncertainties of natures moods
cannot see better investment OF
small savings. Two thousand acres Of
land will carry 100000 apple trees and
100000 peach and pear trees between. II
viii bring some returns the third year
and Will Of itself be worth at the END
of five years a half million dollars MI.
) L. NJ. Winans. a life long practical hor-
ticuIturist who has 1000 acres of or
) chard referred to above within rev
miles Of the above tract has been cho-
! sen as superintendent Of this new frsixe
: farm.