The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-02
Reno County WiIiHave an Enor.
nous Apple Crop.
Estimated That There Will Be
400 Cars to Ship.
FRUIT FINE AND
Many of the Trees Will Yield
Twenty five Bushels.
Apple Pickers VIII Be in Great
Demand This Year.

Hutchinson Aug. Reno county viii
have an immense crop of apples this
year and the people who look after that
sort of business will have something to
do.
Some people say that there will be
300 or 400 cars of apples shipped from
Hutchinson alone this year. To be sure
a large share of the apples are in the
vicinity of Hutchinson, which are
grown in the county, and the big mar
ket will be here. There are men who
say that there will be much as 500
cars of apples shipped out of this city
during the year This would mean
450, 900 bushels of Ben Davis, Winesap,
Missouri Pippin and all the other fine
eaters and cookers.
There are dozens of fruit men who
will have from LOGO to 5000 and one or
more will have 30, 600 1000 bushels
to take care of. This means sonething.
1t will mean lots of work, but with
good profit to pay for the work and the
worry.
Six hundred car loads mean 80 trains
of 20 cars each. This would mean a
vast amount of wealth, for all of these
apples will sell for good price.
The local storage houses are prepar-
ed to take care of a vast amount of
fruit and apples will be the main thing
stored this year. The storage houses
are ready for this trade, in fact they
have been built with this fruit country
in view, to some extent. With crops
like this one in sight the storage houses
will have all they can attend to and
will prove such a success that there is
certain to be other large places built.
There are many trees along the Cow
creek valley which will yield as much
as % bushels to the tree. Some of them
are surprise to people when they are
seen from the roadway but are more of
a puzzle yet when they are closely ex-
amined. Early in the spring when the
first apples appeared on the trees they
grew in clusters and there were a dOZ-
en- where there should have been but
one or two. The wind blew these ex-
traS off the trees and one apple is
growing where one should grow. The
apples are, consequently, large and will
be the finest grade of fruit ever raised
in this country.
Hutchinson will be a great apple
market this fall and apple pickers"
will likely be in demand more than
they ever have in this portion of Kan
sas. Reno county is showing up bet
ter as an agricultural and orchard
country every year, but the immense
apple crop this year Will be a revelation
even to the people who have always
believed in this portienCOf the state.
There are over a-EnIllion and a quar-
ter apple trees in bearing in the cOun-
ty at this time and at least half that
number of trees are growing to the age
when they will also be bearing. This
is an immense orchard country, but its
possibilities for fruit raising have not
been tested for one-tenth part as yet.
There are thousands of acres of fine
fruit land, where other. things of less
value are grown, and which can be
bought for a moderate price. 1t is the
best investment in the world, for a
man who knows how to make money |
out of an orchard.