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

planted sriliA rather; some thirly y u,.,.
Of about 5000 per acre.
APPLES of New York ana New Eng
land.
The old reliable apple country OF the
United States Is Northern New York.
II has been producing large crops OF
line fruit for years, and with modern
spraying and improved cultivation At
is now Welding more than ever. Rep
rcsentative apple buyers of the coun-
try have annual meetings al Niagara
Falls. where they arrange the man
aGcment 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 applos- This is especially so of
Southeastern Maine and some parts of
Massa chusetts, Vermont and New lamp
shire. The most OF the apples from
That region are I;aldwins ..mong the
new movements there Is the rcnovs-
ton Of the old orcisards after methods
laid down. by The Department OF Agri-
culture. y large number Of abandoned
farms have been made profitable by
the rejuvenation of the old apple or
charfs through trimming and cuItiva-
tion.
Apple ric Ridge.
There is district in a Virginia
j d u
the Appalachian Mountains ana ] shall
dignity the whole of that system by
that name Apples can be raised in
selected spotE through that whole
range, running from New England as
far south as Georgia. There are fine
apple lands I'm the Alleshanies, ana
thousands OF acres of trees are now
being sc: out in different parts of the
Blue Ridge. l.: Automatic county
about Charlottesville. Whore Thomns
Jefferson lived. they raise the famous
Albemarlc pippins. which hiring from
S. 10 $40 "a barrel, the greater part
of them being shipped TO England
That was the favorlte apple of Queen
Victoria, King Edward alto 1t before
going TO bed, and King George had
been brought M upon it. THEY are
now using Aibenarlc pippins In Wind
sor Palace. and have bought them
in covcnt Garden market nj some
thing like Il shilling pound. This
apple is fastidions rs TO soil and eli
mate.
1t grows best in the covcs of the
mountains. and OF late II has been,
thriving in the Shenandoah Vatleysl
know Of men there who are netting
from $4,000 10 10000 a year from
their pippin trees. and there arc mum
erous farmers who make more out OF
their orchards than from wheat corn
or live stock.
In the valley of Virginia.
Another fnvoritc apple is the YORK
Imperial, and others are the Grimes
Golden Winesaps aud Mammoth Black
Twigs. Take Frederick county, Va, OF
which Winchester Is the capital: inc
apple industry there is in It's begin
ming but ihey arc setting out trees
by the hundreds of thousands and
lands arc jumping in value. The coun-
try is only about six years old ms q
marketing region. II was in 900 or
1906 that the commercial orchards
began TO bear. Since then the bank
deposits have trcbed, and this last
fall that county alono shipped about
l,oo0.e0o bushels ofapples Tho apple
lands are far cheaper than those Aof
the West. selling for from SIS, to S2oo
per acre. the latter price being usually
for land on which trees have been
planted. HT -ji.s
The same might be said OF mn,
tensivc region of apple country infthe
mountains of West virginia. where
large orchards have haon set out,3and
from where annual shipments OF many
carloads arc made. There arc big Or
chnrda in Western Maryland and IN
Southern PcnnHylyania, regions IN
which thousands or trees arc now nc :
Ing planted. 5e
Money In Southern Orchards.
J. Tho nrUNtS or "a hn -So,ithernt orchards