The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-06-28
TELLS CHICAGO FOLK
ABOUT THE BIG APPLE
Country Where Farmers Own Au-
tomobiles and Have Modern
Convenieces in Homes

What would you think" saws
Frank G.. Carpenter in an article in
the Chicago Tribune illustrated by
two pictures. one Of which is a yaki-
ma Winesep apple tree heavily laden
with fruit and with two stalwart
Yakima rsnchers in the foreground,
of country where nearly every
farmer owns his automobile. where
his house is lighted by electricity and
he has water On tap. where scores Of
families go every year to southern
raltfornia to get away from the cold,
and where YOU cannot throw stone
without striking man who has
money in the bank? That. I am told
at the department Of agriculture, is
thu condition Of half dozen different
districts i'm the Pacific northwest
Take the Hood River valley in Ore
son, where the apples ana pumpkins
are Of about the same size! Orchard
land there is worth from $500 to
$4,000 an acre. and orchards already
set out will bring $4,000 and upward
per acre Said one of the department
officials TO me:
Good Washington Land
"'I was recently talking with an
orchardst who has ten acres of bear
ing trees in one Of the best districts
of Washington. | asked him what his
land was worth. He replied:
IT ought to bring me at least
10000"
Well said |, after thinking a mo-
ment. II don't know that that is TOO
much You have ten acres, and that
would he Just $1,000 per acre
"'But mean $4,000 per acre.
id the man. 1T will bring a good
income on that and leave fair sink
ing fund And thereupon he took
out his pencil and showed me that he
was making big percentage on his
own valuation"
q" The Paci1C northwest is tho
Utopia OF the farmer, said another OF
the agricultural explorers. The apple
growers are mostly educated men and
the social conditions are high
ON Hood River which is town OF
5000, there is University club to
which belong $50 college graduates.
North Yakima looks for all the world
like a New England city, and its
houses are more artistic than those of
the east,
The Wenatchee valley is great
farm town covering thousands Of
acres divided into patches of five and
ten acres of orchards. Each patch
has its house, which is equipped with
electricity and lighted by common
plant. Every home has running water
and telephone. and scores of farm
ers own their own motor cars
THE bare land in the Wenatchee
valley is worth $500 and upward AN
acre. and the orchards in bearing
yield $500 or more to the acre a year
Good Eastern Orchards
Just now some of the most success
'ful orchards in the country are in
western Michigan. They run up along
the coast of the lake and extend some
distance back into the interior
know of one agriCulturist mist
who has an orchard of 20 acres there.
It was planted by his father some
thirty odd years ago. That orchard
brought in $4,000 this year, making a
net profit Of about $500 per acre.
The old reliable country Of the
United states is northern New York.
It has been producing large crops of
fine fruit for years and with modern
spraying and improved cultivation it
is now yielding more than ever
Said one of Uncle SANS fruit eX-
perts:
When every family in the United
States classes the baked apple as one
of its breakfast dishes and lets il
crowd out some Of the cereals there
will be no trouble about the Consurnp-