The Green Forest tribune., 1904-01-09
GREATEST IN THE WORLD
Northwest Arkansas Excels all
 in Production of Apples.

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 Northwest Arkansas Excels all
 in Production of Apples.
 The following article was writ ten by W. J. Patton, of Spring. dale:
 The production of apples in the United States has outgrown that of all other crops in the past de- eade, and it's value and quantity is exceeded by only three other farm products. Although the in- creas of fruit production has been phenominal, consumption has been even more rapid. It seems that Europe is destined to eat many millions of barrels annual ly, while the Orient and the Phil lipines have scarcely secured sight or scent of our big red ap- pies. As yet no crop has been sufficient to supply more than moderate quantities to the foreign trade; the greatest ill any year has been less than 3,000,O00 bar rels.
 Northwest Arkansas, with it's broad, fertile chert plateaus, some 2,O00 feet above the sea level, is the natural home of the apple, as we'll as of all other fruits, cit rus excepted, and has become the great apple center of the U nited States, and no doubt, of the world. High up on the great Ozark range are vast plains of table lands where many of the now famous apples of America have been originated. Among the more celebrated of these seed- ling apples are the Arkansas Shannon-Pippin, Coffelt, Ark ansas Black, Black Ben Davis, Olivers Red, Springdale, Elkhorn and others of superior merit.
 The immense phenominal growth of the apple industry in Washington and Benton counties, Arkansas, as shown by Vol. VI., pages 623-4, twelfth United States census, is little less than astounding. Washington county is shown to have had at that date 1 1,555, 146 trees, Benton county to have had 1,613, ,336, and Madison county 721, ,106 trees-a total for these counties of 3.SS9, 668 trees. To this must be added 1,5OOO, ,OOO planted since the census was talk en or a total at this time of 5, ESQ., 66o. Niagara county, New York, the next greatest apple county, had in 1900, 924, ,086 trees-more than a million trees less than are contained in either Washington or Benton counties, Arkan sas.
 Arkansas had in 1900 total of 7,486, 145 trees, nearly al of which are in the northwest counties, which places it to day the greatest apple growing region on earth, while stone and berry fruits bid fair to rival the most productive sections of the United States, and are in amount no doubt equal to one third of the apple crop.
 Pursuing the above facts and figures a lit tie further, it is in- teresting to note tie amount of transportati on that would te re- quired to m arket these products. Estimating tEe total number of trees in Arka nsas in 1eC0 10 have been increase d 10 9,CCC,CCO in the past three ye ars, and that each tree will vie Id half a barrel, and | then add on e-ihird of this amount for berries and stone fruits, ard we have tn equivalent of 1.tCO, 900 barrels of other fruits, grand total of 6, C(0,CC0 talrels of fluit. Allowin g 1e0 barrels 10 the car load is 3 LEGO carlo ads, and allow ing 20 ans to tie train is 1.sI5 trains o i 20 cars esch Mlioh will be requ fred to rCve the cltp.
 Enormous ard astolnCir g ss these figures are, review will show them to tevely leasenatle and conserv ative, ;1d Iesitivt enough to sfCw this seetie n 10 tt the center ard frt nt of tEe s1Lls growing industry.