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


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,
saltpeter 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
mountains. the springs, hot or cold.
Florida, California West Indies or q
trip to Europe-but we have at home
the grea test. pleasantest and easiest to
take cure-2n, namely fruit. Fruit for
breakfast. fruit for dinner, fruit for
supper-fruit, fruit, fruit. And while
eating between meals is condemned, ev-
cry one but a chronic dyspeptic 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 eat one apple each per day,
three hundred and sixty-five apples
each per year. which would be about
ore barrel. it would require eighty mil
lion barrels of apples to do this nation
each year.
extent the European market by ship
ping a few millions of barrels over there
per year, and pay no attention 10 ouI
neighbor, Mexico, in whose principal
city apples sell at one dollar per Dozen
The world is only beginning TO eat APP
ples. and America-the United States OF
America-the western central states or
the United States of America-musr
prepare to meet this demand. If 1t
rains dollars, let US have our hats and
aprons held out to catch our share, ana
don't be bashful; but hold a big hat or
a big apron. In other words, why not
plant more fruit trees2 Why not use
the land for the highest and best pur-
rose for which land was formed Ihls
II a work for the women as we'll as the
men Some tell us that an apple got
Eve into trouble. while l think II was
not such an apple as we grow now IN
these United States; yet if I were a wo-
man | would get my revenge by inter-
esting myself in growing apples some
women do. Farmers wives nave 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 without curtalllng
his tObaccO) The world must nave ap-
pies We must have eighty million bar
rels and sooner or later two or three
times eighty million barrels. Tor the
women and men, the girls and boys. OF
these glorious United States No school
lunch pail, no workman : dinner pai,
no clerks lunch box is complete three
hundred times in the year, without an
apple, 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 whaler, no sealer or fishing YES
sci is complete without barrels OF fresh
apples and boxes of dried apples, be-
sides the canned fruits ana the cider
vinegar and products picked in cider
vinegar. How could the world live with
out the appe2 This brings to my mind
the fellow who fears the planting OF
fruit trees is being overdone; the faint
hearted farmer who timoTOusly 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 ap-
pie. and are in great demand. If you
have fifty trees and your neighbors
have each a few. you will 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
i titles go to waste. and you are discour-
aged. What is the remedy? It is a
heroic one. Put out a thousand trees
or a thousand acres, of Maiden Blush,
and get rich. They are fine shippers,
and will go north il car loads 70 great
apple growing states. and sell in the
home of the northern apple. because
these people love apples and welcome
these high quality early apples A few
trees may not pay; a great tract viii
bring wealth It 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 ap-
pies The east is gradually losing its
grip and is compelled to acknowledge
the superiority of some Of our Western
fruits I heard Professor Powell of the
chronological division of the Depart
ment of Agriculture of Washington, p
c., in a talk at Toronto, Canada, before
the National Society of Apple Shippers
largely eastern men. say. The West
can grow better Missouri Pippin, Der
Davis and Jonathan apples than you Of
the East"