Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-10-28
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oloHNweed Center 81 Applo Delft.
Mills county 10 the center OF apple
production in western Iowa and adja-
cent to Glenwood there are 5000 acres
in apples, nearly all Of which have pro-
duced fruit which has sold for more
money than the land can be sold for
and valuation of $3.50 to $500 an acre
would be moderate. One thousand car
loads OF apples from this county is a
low estimate for this years crop, and
frequently during the past month there
has been shortage of cars at Glen
wood and long lines of teams hauling
wagons loaded with the fruit can be
seen standing in the railroad yards
there any day.
So many reports of good yields have
been made that comparisons are diff
cult +. p. Spencer. Of Randolph, mar
keted this year 1000 barrels from
twenty acres, NJ w. Sells realized 700
barrels from ten acres Others in that
vicinity were equally fortunate Here
as elsewhere turnout the apple district.
thousands of barrels of the fruit arr,
made into cider and vinegar. The in
dustry has not yet reached that point
where the extent of money realized
from the byproducts,i is made mat
ter of record
Yisid Of 10000 Barrels.
Henry Evernham. Of Glenwood, has
one of the finest crops OF Jonathan
apples ever produced in this country.
He sold his orchard TO a packing COM
pany. receiving s1.O5 a box. The yield
was 5000 boxes. c. II. Dyar, whose
seventy-acre orchard near Glenwood
attracts notice, had fifty men at work
all season on the orchard His yield
was close to 10000 barrels. The work :
men lived in tents. and except in rare
instances never left the orchard during
the season.
Among others whose yield Of apples
entitled them to notice among their
neighbours and elsewhere, are: Sol Rod
man. H. HI. Rabbit. Mrs. Mccormick,
f. E. Clark, ]. E. Skaden. Mrs. H. NJ
Strahon. Mrs. Woolsey, Mrs. Newman
George F. Salyers, w. A. Axtell, Rob-
ert Henderson,, H. b. Anderson, Walter
Aistrope, Martin Cunningham, w. l.,
Summers and MIR. Boehmer. The lat
ter producer bought the product of
many of his neighbors and did large
business in shipping and putting i'll
cold storage for future shipment.
At Malvern heavy shipments are be-
ing and have been made. L. E. Bork-
heimer. c. w. Black, Elmer johnson
and Oliver Hammers are among the
heavy shippers and producers.
Other points where train loads of
apples were shipped out are Emerson,
Tabor, Pacific junction, silver City
Balfour, Henderson, Farragut. Has
tings, Carson. Macedonia, Treynor. In
various towns in Shelby and Taylor
counties large shipments were also
made. Page county has also produced
a wonderful crop. NJ. Y. Martin. a
buyer. today reporting the sale Of TO-
900 barrels to one Chicago firm.
With the experience of 1909, the ap-
pie men thought they would be able to
overcome every difficulty this year. blu.
thee rop is SO large that new difficult
ties arose. For example the barrel
making part Of the industry has proved
Inadequate at times, causing extra la
Dor In handling and sometimes delay
IN shipping. The railroads have also
not been able at all times to meet the
demand for cars. The great room re-
quired for storage Of barrels prevents
making them in very large quantities.
in advance. However this year some
barrels have been shipped in. the local
factories not being able to supply the
demand. In one factory fifteen men
were employed for several months