Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-16

the apples are cooled to about "a degrees,
Fahrenheit. before being put in the cars.
The fruit growers at Council Bluffs will
hear an interesting discussion Of the sue
cess that has attended the planting Of trees
with dynamite. The seed are not shot into
the earth in a bomb shell. as might be
supposed. The dynamite Is used to loosen
the earth under the hole wherein the small
tree is to be set out. The trees grow more
rapidly as a result OF the use Of the ex
plosive.
The third Tuesday in October is cels-
brated as the annual apple day" in many
states. on hat day every person is sup
posed to eat at least one apple and to give
at least one apple to some one else. Apple
day has been observed for six years and
the custom Is growing.
Horticulturists devote much time and at
tention to the production Of new varieties
of apples. The "seedless' apple has ar
rived, and it is now possible that the full
fllment of the prophecy. There amt goln'
to be core is imminent. The seedIess
apple halls from the irrigated orchards of
Colorado, and It Is said hat II possesses
a delicious flavor and no core at all. 1t Is
oAG Va Ah1 eA1A - Nv koNAh
show.
Two other new varieties which have been
celebrated in print recently must await the
approving seal Of some body of scientists
before they are accepted as being really
true. It is declared that one famous hor-
ticulturist has 30 combined twigs from
sweet and sour apple trees that he has
produced a tree bearing apples sweet on
one side and sour on the other. Another
triumph for the nature-wizard or the ma
ture-faker, as the case may be, is the
chestnut apple. BY grating a twig from
a chestnut tree on an apple bough 1t is
claimed that an apple was obtained inside
of which there were three well-grown
and w~ell-favored ehestnuts.
There are no less than 500 standard va
rieties of apples grown in the United
States. Each section has it's peculiar
favorites, and some are grown to eat and
some are grown to sell. The man from
Oregon or Washington will stake his for
tune, his life and his sacred honor upon
the proposition that q northwestern Spltz-
enbeTg is the best apple on earth. Any
Virginian will accept his challenge and
ride forth to battle as the Knight of the
Albemsrle Pippin. The rural New Yorker
will defend his Balwins to the last ditch.
The Missourian and Arkansas traveller
viii Join forces in defence Of the primacy
of the Winesap.
1t is a well known fact to the people of
the Ozark mountains in Missouri and Ar
kansas that the winesap apple is the best
fruit grown on earth. Dave Craig, when
past the meridian on life, foTsook the
primrose path Of daIliance and. turning his
back upon the devil. enlisted in the army
of the Lord and the Baptist church. From
that day forth he never tasted red liquor
nor Winesap apples. He knew, as do all
good Ozarkers, that the Winesap was the
best fruit ever grown and he reasoned that
1t therefore was the very variety Of apple
which Mother Eve ate in the garden.
Perhaps the most popular apple with
growers is the Ben Davis. A Ben Davis
apple is fair to look upon. 1t is big, red
and tempting. 1t packs well, keeps well,
ships well, 1t grows in profusion and its
trees are hardy frost resisters. From
the sodid money-making point Of view the
Ben Davis apple cannot be beat. But. pity
the poor foreigners who buy them in ig-
n~orance, every apple eater Of parts knows
that a Ben Davis apple was designed only
to sell. They should never be eaten.
The Houston Post and the Kansas City
journal long nave laDOTeu 20 warn the
public against the hypocricy of the Der
Davis. 1t looks like an apple, It smells
like an apple. it is an apple-but it doesn't
taste like an apple. No editor has come tc
the defense Of this snare and delusion, blu
much remains to be done before Ben Davis
is driven from the market places. 1t is
the foundation stone of more than one
swollen fortune made in apples.
The big red apple is the King of fruits
} Fifty-five per cent OF all the fruit trees in
America are apple trees, and they yielc
more than 80 per cent Of all the orchard
fruits produced by the nation. There are
2OO,O 900, 600 apple trees and the average croI
per year is about a bushel for each tree
| If all these trees we're to bear a full croI
I in any one year the United States coulC
feed the whole world with apples. Not
w~ithstanding the decline in the apple yield
the apple still is the best money-makei
in the whole catalogue OF fruits. 1t ii
; King Apple.
l by Frederic J. RRskin.
l ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the Farmer