The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-06-11

are SO far nothing like eaoE. Of the
far West. but the scientific fruit men
tell me that the lanGS; In many of the
Eastern sections are just as suited 10
apples. and tkat proper cultivation,
sprsEing..i packing and marketing
should make them pay quite as we'll
.Alanys!off the Western fruit growers
realize this, and / know personally "a
number OF orchardists who nave sold
out their lands IN Washing.o on and
Idaho and are now buying Southern
lands and setting them ont. One sucn
man recently bought over 200 acres
right on the railroad within hall
mile or so of the fine old town OF
Leesburg Fie paid something like $40
or $50 an acre, and he expects to raise
as good apples within about forty
miles OF the national capital rs can
pc raised in Colorado or Washington
That man bought apple lands in Ore
goh for $500 an acre and sold them
for 500. Another young fellow OF
the Lf6sburg neiGhhorhood has bought
$50 acres. upon "Sl.h he is starting
with an orchard of 5000 trees, one half
OF the profits OF which he expects TO
give to foreign missions.
Ihere is an Albemnrlc pippin orchard
on the Fairfax estate. formerly owned
by President Monroe that Is paytns
exceedingly we'll :nd near there Is a
little orchard of less than 500 trees
which has been 50 we'll ma ma cd bv a
young lady farmer iha, II is an object
lesson for miles around In the latter
case the trees We're set ont in 1891.
twenty-one years ago, and ii was sin
teen years after that before they he
gan 10 give crops commercially profit
able. One gan plant GOO trees on twelve
acres of ground and have room to
spare. This Is what that girl did with
her trees In 1906 her net pronts were
SI612: In 1907. 1862: in 1908; s1.227.
In 1909. ss,24s:t and In, 1910 she had
gross receipts of ovec $4,000, yielding
her net profit of s3.S62. Moreover,
her trees have begun to show what
they will do, and there is no reason
why her crop should not he greatly in
creased as the years 20 on.
WIZ the APPLE Market ne Giutted.
Stories similar to these are known
the apple regions of the United States.
They are founded on present condi-
tons. and ARE the cause Of the enor-
nous extent to which new orchards
are heinE planted all over the country
Many of the government clerks at
Washington arc Investing In orchard
schemes. Some of the fruit experts
Oh the AGRICULTURAL l)epaftmfntl have
their independent orchards. and not a
few OF Uncle Sans employees have
gone Into the business and are maxi
Ing good.
At the same time apple lands are
being exploited as orange lands were
some years ago, and syndlcates are
formed TO manage orchards ut fixed
price per acre cor treo. The planting
lis very extensive, and this Is cspe-
cially SO in the Pacific Northwest and
In Virginia, West Virginia and Mary
land. 1t is also trio OF the other ap-i
pie regions, although TO q minor ex'
tent ,i.ls. N
Last year, 7 am told. tho shipments
Of applcs from the Washington, Ore
gon. and Idaho regions amounted to
j 5000 Carloads. and. moreover. whep
the trees that-are now being planted
come into bearing. say ten years from
now there wiilEbe from that reg on
more thapil0O:0O0 carloads. The most
of s4tese ai1pments go In boxes, but 7
AK carload of barrels would
.ctoiiitI{ih " about the same number OF
APPLES ylSt 200 barrels TO the car,
which,.Ms All average shinment In the
5EastA4I have myself shipped 300 bar
rolls lin one car-this 100000 carloads
would equal 2o,00o,000 barrels OF ap-
piles. ThisHisi Tho potential product ten
years from now OF the PACIFIC North
west, and that part of the country