The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-14

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
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 our tried varieties, we must
lead the world on those varieties; ana
as the above varieties are the great
shippers we must largely supply tbs
world AS an illustration. Judge Fred
Wellhouse. commonly called the apple
king" shipped twenty-five carloads i'll
one train, all Ben Davis, which had
been sold to a New York buyer.
me 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
rIeties. To be sure. there are some SUI
perior varieties grown east that are no<
great quantity of apples used, such va
rietles do not cut much ice" Their loss
from the general markets would scarce
ly be noticed. Besides there is much
in name, and eastern folks get in
rut. get used TO a name, and stick 10
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
for Jonathan. So of the Honorable Benz
Jamln Davis in the south When he gets
below the Mason and Dixon line he
must sell for Gano, and the southerner
who seorns to eat the plebian Ben Da-
Wis. buys him under the alias as Cfano
pays for him as Gano, and eats him in
commence as GanOs While cOndemning
Ben Davis as unit for a gentleman to
eat and an insult to offer to his guest:
everybody likes TO be humbugged if he
can only have his own way In thA
last few 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
pouhos OF cnolce tea for one pound Of
American sage leaves. so the orange and
panama grower will give back load of
ms Ifult Tor handful of ripe apples.
even II OF the Ben Davis variety. All
tropical fruits cloy the appetite in time
humanity never tires of eating COCO
apples. These eastern continents have
scarcely begun to eat apples: many
thousands of their people probably
saSHsI yer tasted an apple; and we must
The Eastern market could not be full
" supplied if we sent our entire prod
uct abroad, SO why should we fear over
production. Mr.. Wellhouse who has
been growing apples for many wears
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 it2 Well Mr. Well
/ house in one year sold the apples from
434 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 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 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 81 per
pound. and the trees do not have to be
fed all winter the products from an
/ equal area at q cost of labor and money
requiring the returns of another SINH
lar area. But the trees stand out the
winter at not 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 a 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 first-class trees in a
first-class manner. and every one grew
/ finely and the orchard had been well
! tended and your wife and children talk
ed happily with you about it. would
you dlOW II TO De destroyed Tor SlVUS
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 S100 (Mr.
Winans sold his apples on the trees. $40
acres five years planted. for s16.000),
[ which is quadrupled as the trees get an
1 added year on and the orchard soon be :
comes too valuable to figure upon Put
a similar value on 1 900 acres and what
have we? With fifty trees per acre L :
coo acres means $4,000 value If the
land cost SIS per acre or $4,000. and the
trees cost cents each. or $500: and
7 the planting and care the first year cost
81 per acre. or $1,000. taxes and Incl
dents s., 500 more, making a total cost of
S33, coo on the same basis as the little
orchard. you have an orchard worth all
it cost and ST 900 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
well chosen and the work we'll done
1 Such an orchard would soon make some
one a millionaire
What about failures? Well. what
about dead cattle2 What about cattle