The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-03-09

sion of any but expert fruit men. In
the grated and budded stock there
are 100000 apple trees; in peach.
plum, prune and apricot, 100000:
pear, 100000 and for cherries $50, 900.
and all this does not touch the seed
lings or seeds planted. Apple seed
lings number a fifth of a million and
apple seed is counted by the acre, of
which there are 80 with a bushel of
seed to the acre. These. figures are
so large as to mean practically moth
ing to any but the expert. Five acres
contain the pear seeds while the
peach pits are measured by the ton.
IS tons being planted in is acres. In
bushels and acres the cherries take
five of each.
Aggregate of Acreage.
One phase of the business which
the average citizen can get hold OF
is the acreage. There are $50 devoted
10 the apple CRAFTS above indicated
and the balance of the 1910 stock
takes 500 acres more. The seeds ana
seedlings require 65 acres and the Or
namental trees, vines and shrubs re-
quire 50 acres. This makes total
Of 500 for the purposes of 1910 alone
Its labor department makes the
company one of the most important
in this section of the stae and places
it among the leaders when payroll is
considered, in Yakima county. Sixty
Ave grafters and wrappers have been
at work since early in Decem Der and
they have put up maximum of So,
600 CRAFTS for one day. Some of the
experts have run up a days total. in
individual instances, of 440O gratis
Including three cars of seedlings pur-
chased in Kansas. those grown by the
company and additional purchases,
the aggregate of CRAFTS at Toppenish
this season is $4,000 for the COM
pany. And already the contracts
booked for fail and spring delivery
1910-1911, call for a total of 1.731.-
600 apple trees
To go further would be to multiply
statistics which are all included in
the simple and thrilling statement
that one of the monster nursery I'M
deitakings of the world is doing bust
ness in this, Yakima county. More
than that the management invites in
spection. The plant is always omen
to the enquirer and no one can APP
proach it without obtaining informa-
ton which it must be "a pleasure 10
procure and possess.
Where County Benefits.
There is another phase of the bust
ness of the Washington Nursery COM
pany and of the general nursery bust
ness of the county which has an i'm
portant bearing and that is its finan-
cial value to Yakima as a whole;
county, valley or district. Mention
was made above of the payroll end
of the enterprise. Add TO that the
outside capital obtained by the com
pany in it's business and expended in
Yakima in land rent. tools. machinery
and other essentials and the tota
looms large. Add again the enhanced
reputation of this district from the
advertising done by the nursery peo-
pie and the efforts of publicity bur
seaus which expend a few hundreds
annually look like the struggles of :
weaklings. Distant publications of
general circulation are the workini
ground of the nurseryman as wei
as are the columns of the home
papers. Each mail brings inquiries
or orders from large extent o.
country. And that kind of reputation
is the kind which grows from the
rapidly. Yakima county, when it get:
to know. will be proud of its nurser'
les.