The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1910-11-18
pRoFIrAnLE APPLE GROWING.

sold his 1910 crop at a profit Of
about $4,000.
This Virginia farmer has an APP
pie orchard of thirty-three acres con
tanning about 1000 bearing trees,
from eight to fourteen years old.
He did not plant the orchard and
leave 1t to shift for itself, as a
great many farmers do. lie pruned
the trees and sprayed them and
cultivated them according to the lat
est improved methods, II he had
left them to chance and circumstan.
ces he would not have been able
to sell 1880 barrels OF apples, as
he did this year, at secs a barrel
the purchaser supplying the barrels,
In growing apples, as in other
things, there are different ways Of
doing which produce different re-
suits.
There are many farmers in Vir-
gniia and elsewhere who have plant
ed extensive orchards and are get
ting no appreciable returns there
from. They simply bought the
trees and set them out and expect
ed them to do the rest" The
orchards have not fulfilled their
owners expectations, because the
owners expected impossibilities Fruit
trees need attention just as other
trees and other crops need It. II
they are allowed to grow without
training or cultivation and II they
are left to the mercy OF insect en-
emies they are not going to prod
ice first-Class fruit II the orch
ard is made a pasture for horses an
cattle the trees will suffer thereby
Some of them will be killed out
right and all OF them will be dam
aged and stunted In growth,
There are farmers who cannot
see any profits worth considering in
growing apples. Probably IL they
tried the Virginia farmers plan for
few years they would arrive at a
different conclusion.
The News invites the careful at
tention of its farmer friends TO
the foregoing well considered ar
ticle What is therein said OF
growing apples in Virginia can
truthfully be written concerning the
raising of apples in Kentucky. APP
pies are becoming the most profita-
bic crop which the farmer can raise
in this section. Reports Of the ex-
tent and value OF the recent apple
crop in West Virginia, and of the
quality Of the fruit produced. is as
founding, The soil In this part of
Kentucky is almost Identical with
the soil OF West Virginia. and the
same Intelligent. careful and we'll
directed labor given to the raising
of apples here in Lawrence county
as was bestowed upon in West Viz
ginia would produce the same splen-
did results But II must be intel
Iigent, careful and well-directed, "
continuous and untiripg labor.
The News desires to cite any, who
may be doubling Thomases on this
point to one case in this immedl-
ate locality, Over on the Point"
there is a small farm within a
stones throw of the bridge toll gate
having on it something less tLan
200 apple trees, mostly Rome Beau
ties The farm was run down and
the orchard was about run out. The
land belongs TO heirs" and could
not be sold, and few thought II
could be made to produce anything
worth while. Among the few who
did think any good thing could CONF
of Nazareth was Mr.. Earl Mcclure
He had the courage OF his con
yictions and rented the farm. He
went to work intelligently and in.
dustriously. He went through that
old apple orchard, and there was
little left OF the trees but the, roots
He pruned and cut and scraped and
plowed until the orchard looked
like field with a couple OF hun.
dred OF naked bushes set out In
1t. 1t was known that the Patrick
place" was being worked by one Of
these here book farmin' fellers, ant
many who had Just as good ground
and as many trees. but less sense
and industry gave Mr.. Mcclure the
grand ha ha, and today he is the
one who laughs, with 500 bushels o
the finest apples picked and housed
IN storage. not blemish on one o.
them, and the owner is calmly wait
ing for the apple market to meet hi
idea as to prices When the applet
gemmed the trees Mr. Mcclure
knew when to spray and what t
use; when the coddling moth threat
ened he knew what to do, ant