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


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 coffee? 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, re-digested mixtures and sand,
| saltpeJer or ground glass for health;
| water cures may advise daily or hourly
baths; athletes may write books about
igymnaStlc exercise, walking, riding or
| the trapeze; physicians may order the
| mountains, the springs, hot or cold,
/ Florida, California, West Indies or
| trip to Europe-but we have at home
the greatest. pleasantest and easiest to
take cure-all, namely fruit. Fruit for
I brea kfast, fruit for dinner, fruit for
| supper-fruit, fruit, fruit And while
eating between meals is condemned eV
erv one but a chronic dySpeptic knows
between meals and the c D. would be
benefited by similar diet II gour-
NETS and city midnight jewellers would
eat appIeS or other fruit instead of
grilIed Holsters and fried oysters, they
/ would awake in better form next day.
Suppose we cat one apple each per day,
| three hundred and sixty-five apples
each per wear. which would be about
one ha rreI it would require eighty mil
lion barrels of apples to do this nation
each year.
Besides this we try to supply to some
extent the European market by ship
fox4 n
per YEAR and pay no attention 10 oul
neighbor. Mexico, in whose principal
CITY apples sell 1t one dollar per dozen.
| The world is only beginning to eat APP
pies. and Anerica-tne United States OF
1 America-the western central states or
the United States of Amerlca-nust
prepare to meet this demand. II II
rains dollars. let US have our mats ana
aprons held out to catch our share, ana
don't be bashful; but hold big hat OF
| a big apron. In other words, why not
plant more fruit trees? Why not use
/ the land for the highest and best pur-
pose for which land was formed This
| is a work for the women as Well as the
men. Some tell us that an apple got
Eve into trouble, while l think It was
1 not such an apple as we grow now IN
these United States; yet If were a Wo-
man [ would get my revenge by inter
esting 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 twithout curtaliing
his tobacco) The world must have ap-
pies 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 workmans dinner pail,
no clerks lunch box is complete. three
hundred times in the year, without an
annie a pear or q. peach as an essential
/ Of
navy no vessel in our merchant mar
rine, no whaler, no sealer or 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. apple? rms brings TO my mlnd
. the fellow who fears the planting of
fruit trees is being overdone; the faint
, hearted farmer who timorouSly puts out
: 100 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 APP
( pie and are in great demand IF you
t have fifty trees and your neighbors
2 have each a few. you will have too
many for the local market, and not
} enough to ship. and you will get a small
:
I titles go to waste. and you are discour-
t aged. What is the remedy It is a
heroic one. Put out a thousand trees
: or thousand acres, of Maiden Blush,
: and get rich. They are fine shippers,
and will go north in car loads to great
. apple growing states, and sell in the
2 home of the northern apple. because
these people love apples and welcome
i. these high quality early apples. A few
trees may not pay: great tract viii
; bring wealth. 1t is plain to be seen
that the central west is the home OF
: the fruit tree To be sure, we do not
/, grow oranges, figs or lemons; neither do
we grow many sweet cherries, but we
] can and will supply the world with APP
I pies The east is gradually losing its
: grip" and is compelled to acknowledge
the superiority of some of our Western
fruits. [ heard Professor Powell of the
1 chronological division of the Depart
: ment of Agriculture of Washington, D.
3 G.. in a talk at Toronto. Canada. before
2 the National Society Of Apple Shippers
{ largely eastern men, say; The West
t can grow better Missouri Pippin. Ben
Davis and Jonathan apples than you OF
the East"