The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1903-04-17
EMPIRE APPLE STATE.
Missouri Now Has First Place
In the List.

1 NAASSOO1A ANOW AAaS = ~ ldIC
In the List.
RIOH YIELD PREDICTED FOB 1903
! 9he Orchards BID Fair to Produce
| Double the value OF the Wheat
Crop-Ffve Trees to Every Inhabi,-
| ant of the Stats-0nly One-tenth of
Available Laaa Tea Planted.
| Westward the course OF the apple
empire takes it's way. Missouri now
leads where a few days ago the scep.
ter was held by New York, says a. Co.
lumbia (Mo.) dispatch to the Kansas
City Star. The apple crop OF Missouri
for 1908 will be. at ordinary prices
| $2O.OOO,OOO. The wheat crop sells in
average years at $12.OOO,OOO. Ii the
| apple crop yields what is now es.
ttmated by N. F. Murry of Holt coun.
| ty and other officers Of the Missouri
State Horticultural society, it will al.
most double the wheat crop III value.
There are 2O.OOO.OOO apple trees in the
state. and 81 tree is the estimated
yield. Il
Missouri three years ago ranked fifth
In apple orchards among the states.
Twenty million apple trees, five trees
| for every man. woman and child in the
| state. are now growing in Missouri,
100000 more than In any other state
and twice as many as ten years ago.
L. A. Goodman. secretary Of the Mis-
| souri, State Horticultural society, says
that despite the great acreage only
One-tenth of MissOuri's available or
chard lands have yet been planted.
| Apple growing, according to Mr.. Good
man, is the most profitable class of
horticultural pursuit in Missouri. J. G..
Whitt6n. professor of horticulture in
the State university, indorses Mr..
Goodman's views. -...s.- .,.
I'm an ordinary year." continued Mr..
Goodman, 1.-The orchardist will not lose
per cent Of his apple crop. The anna
teur is too apt to dig and plant without
the air before planting. The roots
should be kept in the ground. This is
true OF every variety Of tree and is as
necessary as that fish be kept in water
II they IRE to remain alive. would
give this as the secret Of success In the
cultivation of trees: Handle carefully
before planting. Do not expose to the
air. and plant In good soil. II these
rules are followed. the trees will grow"
The king OF Missouri apples is the
Ben Davis. Ii is firm, Of good shape
aud holds ITS color well. A. carload of
Hen Davis apples shipped from Mis-
souri, to Berlin sold there at Sc a BUSH.
ell. A Missourian found Ben Davis ap-
pies labeled Missouri" at fruit ven
der's stand on Inter den Linden in
Berlin. They sold at 10 cents each and
had kept their accustomed rich red col.
or and sawdust flavor. Other apples
suitable for the Missouri climate are
Gano, Jonathan. Winesap, Mammoth
Black Twig, York Imperial. Clayton.
Ingram and Rams Golden. i
The profits of apple culture in Mis-
souri, would have been larger except
for the ravages Of the woolly aphis or
the apple root plant louise. Early in
April this insect goes upon his destruc-
tive expeditions. In other states this
plant louise attacks the limbs of apple
trees, but in Missouri it bores into the
roots. Its antics are SO different among
Missouri orchards from that of which
It Is guilty in New York that scientists
for a long time thought 1t was differ
ent species Of insect pest. j. NJ. Stead
man. professor Of entomology in the
Missouri State university, however, dis,
covered that the insect was not two,
but one, leading q kind Of DR.. Jekyl
and Mr.. Hyde existence.
The Missouri river is the dividing
line for the enemies Of apple orchards.
In northern counties little damage is
occasioned by the insects. In the land
OF the big red apple, however, the
woolly aphis and his kinsmen wrought
large destruction until Professor Stead
man found that tobacco dust killed the
insect and. fertilized the soil. The dis
ScOvery was worth millions Of dollars
to Missouri orchardists and will be
worth more. Ninety five per cent Of the
root rot In apple trees is occasioncd b.
the twig insect. #
More and more orchards are planted
each year. When the unoccupied land
available forapple orchards in Nilsson.
ri is planted, there will be 100000, 600
apple trees in the state. At a dollar Il
tree the annual yield would be $780,.
600. 900 or an amount almost fabulous
as compared with the scattering and
uncertain thousands yielded by the APP
pie trees il, Missouri a few years ago.
The Missouri apple will soon have a
place with the Missouri mule and the \
! Missouri hen. "a III a /, Ss II
s inst Lcarned That He u Free. ~
Ill According to the ST. Louis Globe
4 Democrat an old negro named Ed