Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-11-19
THE BIG RED APPLE
By Frederic ]. Haskin

ing IT into refrigerator cars. This is ac-
complished in small cold-storage plants
in the orchards or at the railway STA
items Ammoniated air is used as re-
frigerating agent, and 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 bomb-sheil, as
might be supposed. The dynamite is used
to loosen the earth under the hole where
in the small tree is to be set out. The
trees grow more rapidly as result OF the
use of the explosive.
The third Tuesday in October is eele-
brated as the annual apple day" in
many states. On that day every person IS
supposed to eat at least one apple anf
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
attention to the production of new varie-
ties of apples. The "seedless" apple has
| arrived, and 1t is now possible that tho
fulhllment of the prophecy There amt
goin to be no core" is imminent The
/ seedless apple halls from the irrigated
/ orchards of Colorado and it is
said that it possesses a delicious
flavor and no core at all. 1t is one of the
star attractions at the Spokane fair.
1
Two other new varieties which have
been celebrated I'm print recently mus;
await the approving seal of some body OF
scientists before they are accepted as be-
ing really true 1t is declared that one
famous horticulturist has so combined
TWICE from sweet and sour apple trees
that he has produced a tree bearing ap-
pies sweet on one side and sour on the
other. Another triumph for the nature
wizard or the nature-faker. as the case
may be, is the chestnut apple. BY graft
ing a twig from a chestnut tree on an
apple bough it is claimed that an ap-
pie was obtained inside of which there
were three well-grown and well-favored
chestnuts.
There are no less than five hundred
standard varieties of apples grown in the
United States. Each section has it's pc
culiar favorites, and some are grown to
eat and some are grown to SELL The man
from Oregon or Washington will stake
his fortune, his life and his sacred honor
upon the proposition that a northwestern
Spitzenberg is the best apple on earth.
Any Virginian will accept his challenge
and ride forth to battle as the Knight of
the Albemarle Pippin. The rural New
Yorker will defend his Baldwins to the
last ditch. The Missourian and Arkansaw
Traveller will 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
Arkansas that the Winesap apple is the
best fruit grown on earth. Dave Craig,
when past the meridian of life. forsook
the primrose 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 it 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. It is big, red
and tempting. 1t packs well, keeps well,
ships well. It grows in profusion and
it's trees are hardy frost resisters. From
the sordid mOney-mal1ing point of view
the Ben Davis apple cannot be beat. But,
pity the poor foreigners who buy them
in ignorance, every apple eater of parts
knows that a Ben Davis apple was de-
signed only to sell. They should never
be eaten.
The Houston Post and the Kansas City
Journal long have labored to warn the
public against the hypocrisy of the Ben
Davis. 1t looks like an apple, it smells
like an apple, 1t is an apple-but it doesn't
taste like an apple. No editor has come
to the defense of this snare and delusion
but much remains to be done before Ben
Davis is driven from the market places.
1t is the foundation stone of more thu