El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-06-10

meetings at Niagara Falls, where they
arrange the management of this crop.
and whether it is big or little largely
affects the market prices all over the
country.
New England is raising a great deal OF
apples. This is especially so of south
eastern Maine and some parts of Massa-
chusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire.
The most of the apples from that region
are Baldwins. Among the new move
ments there is the renovation of the old
orchards after methods laid down by the
department of agriculture. A large
number of abandoned farms have been
made profitable by the rejuvenation OF
the old apple orchards, through trimming
and cultivation.
Apple Pie Ridge.
There is district in Virginia known as
Apple Pie Ridge. 1t is in the Appa-
lachian mountains. and / shall dignity
the whole of that system by that name.
Apples can be raised in selected spots
through that whole range, running from
New England as far south as Georgia.
There are fine apple lands in the Ale
ghenies, aud thousands of acres of trees
are now being set out in different parts
Of the Blue Ridge. In Albemarle county,
about Charlottesville, where Thomas JEFF
ferson lived, they raise the famous Abe
marie pippins which bring from So to $40
a barrel the greater part of them being
shipped to England. That was the
favorite apple of queen Victoria. King
Edward ate it before going to bed. and
king George has been brought up upon
it. They are now using Albemarle
pippins in Windsor palace, and [ have
bought them in Covent Garden market
at something like a shilling a pound
This apple is fastidious as to soil and
climate. 1t grows best in the coves of
the mountains, and of late it has been
thriving in the Shenandoah valley.
know of men there who are netting
from ten to twenty thousand dollars a
year from their pippin trees, and there
are numerous farmers who make more
out of their orchards than from wheat,
corn or live stock.
In the Valley of Virginia.
Another favorite apple is the York i'm
perial, and others are the Grimes golden,
wine saps and mammoth black twigs.
Take Frederick county. Va, of which
Winchester is the capital. The apple in
dustry there is in its beginning, but
they are setting out trees by the hum
dreds of thousands and lands are Jump
ing in value. The country is only about
six years old as a marketing region. 1t
was in 1905 or 1906 that the commercial
orchards began to bear. Since then the
bank deposits have trebled and this last
fall that county alone shipped about a
million bushels of apples. The apple
lands are far cheaper than those of the
west, selling for from SIS to $500 per
acre, the latter price being usually for
land on which trees have been planted.
The same might be said of an extern
sive region of annie country in the
mountains of West Virginia, where large
orchards have been set out and from
where annual shipments of manv car
loads are made. There are big orchards
in western Maryland and in southern
Pennsylvania, regions in which thousands
of trees are now being planted.
Money il Southern Orchards.
The profits of the southern orchards
are so far nothing like those of the far
west, but the scientific fruit men tell me
that the lands in many of the eastern
sections are Just as suited to APPLES and
that proper cultivation, sprayin, packing
and marketing should make them pay
quite as well. Many of the western
fruit growers realize this, and | know
personally a number of orchardists who
have sold out their lands in Washington
and idaho and are now buying southern
lands and setting them out. One such
man recently bought over 230 acres right
on the railroad within a half mile or so
of the old town of Leesburg He paid
something like $50 or $50 an acre, and he
expects to raise as good apples within
about 40 miles of the national capital as
can be raised in Colorado or Washing
ton. That man bought apple lands in
Oregon for $500 an acre and sold them
for 500. Another young fellow of the
Leesburg neighborhood has bought $50
acres upon which he is starting with an
orchard of 5000 trees, one-half of the
profits of which he expects to give to for
eign missions.
Whet One Girl DID.
There is an Albemarle pippin orchard
on the Fairfax estate, formerly owned
by president Monroe. that is paying
exceedingly well, and near there is a