Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-14
FARMERS IN SOUTHWESTERN
IOWA MAKE MORE MONEY
FROM FRUIT THAN CEREAL.
MORE ATTENTION TO BE- PAID
TO NEGLECTED ORCHARDS
Partial Failure Corn Crop Result. in
Harvesting Of Crop Heretofore Per-
mitted to Rot on the Ground-Every
Little Hamlet in Southwest Shipping
Apples This Year.
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Special to Times-Repu bican,
Council Bluffs. Oct. lit is be-
lieved that when the returns are all
in, that this year will have proven the
greatest ever known for the apple in
dustry in western and southwestern
Iowa. 1t is simply astonishing, the re-
turns which the growers have realized
from their orchards and in any num-
Der of instances farmers, who, ordin-
arily pay little or no attention to their
fruit. trees, finding that their corn
promised to give poor yield. turned
their eyes and attention to their or
chards with the result that they have
made more clean money from the sale
of apples from few trees than their
neighbors can hope to realize from
their wide corn fields.
While Mr.. E. G. Spencer is not to be
classed with those who pay attention
to their orchards only in such cases
as that mentioned, his experience will
serve as an example of the profits that
are being realized from apples this
year. and his Is typical of scores and
scores of others that might be related.
Mr.. Spencer has an orchard near
Randolph of forty acres on which
there are about 1900 trees. From these
he will harvest about 1000 barrels
which will net him from $4,000 to &c.,
900. Mr.. Spencer has about 500 Of
Grimes Golden apple trees, and from
these he has picked $50 barrels Of the
finest kind Of fruit, apples that grade
as fancy; 100 barrels Of second grade
and fifty barrels of culls and wind
falls. The remaining $500 trees will
hold out fully as well. This year Mr..
Spencer put a big cider mill in his
orchard and not an apple is allowed
to go to waste. He has also built large
storage tanks for cider and vine gar.
At Glenwood, Mills county. which
[of apples this year, the commercial
club thought to take advantage Of its
big apple crop in the matter Of aAver-
Using. Yesterday a score Of girls, all
dressed in military costume, boarded
passing trains and with advertising
matter they also gave away to tho
passengers 100 bushels of their finest
Eapples.
Every little hamlet in the western
part Of the state has made shipments
of apples this year and the returns
have been enormous. In many sections
OF Missouri. which have been touted as
the home Of the big red apple" the
crop this year was q failure and buy
ers were sent into all parts of Iowa
where there were any apples raised.
which has been partially responsible
for the unusual activity In the trade
this year..
The eyes Of the farmers have been
Opened to their possibilities, however,
and steps are being taken in several
localities for the organization of COM
panies within themselves looking to the
preservation Of the crop in the future
and to the matter of marketing. Cold
storage will be provided and no matter
what the result Of the crop in Mis-
souri, the apple raisers of western Iowa
propose to be able to make the most Of
the crop in the future.