El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-06-10
fCOuvright. 1911, BY Frank G. Carpenter.)

club to which belong $50 college grad
yates. North Yakima looks for all the
world like a New England city, and its
houses are more artistic than those OF
the east. The Wenatche valley is a
great farm town covering thousands of
acres, divided UP into patches of five and
ten acres of orchards. Each patch has
its house, which is equipped with cleo
tricity and lighted by a common plant.
Every home has running water and a
telephone, and scores of the farmers own
their own motor cars.
"The bare land in the Wenatche valley
is worth $500 and upward per acre, and
the orchards IN bearing yield $500 or
more to the acre year.
Near southern Washington crop of
eight acres was sold on the trees for
$4,000, and the purchaser did the pick
ing and marketing. They had an apple
show at Spokane last fall where they
gave away prizes which aggregated
$4,000. the first prize being a sweep
stake of $1,000 At that show there were
displays from sc different districts in
Washington. Oregon. California, IDAHO
and Montana, and the apples were shown
in all sorts of packages, from the car
load to the box They sent one train
load of the exhibits from there to Chi
cago. 1t went by express and II carried
just 100000 apples.
Our Best Apple Lands.
Where are our best apple landss
| have asked this question of several
of the leading pomologists of the agricul-
tllral department. and we have gone over
the country with a map laid before us.
Take first the Pacific northwest. The
most famous regions are pockets such as
the Wenatchee valley and Hood River
country. They have not a large area,
but the land has been divided up into
small patches, ten acres being enough
for any one man to handle. The Yakima
region IS larger, and there are other eX
tensive tracts in Idaho, Oregon and
Washington. There is a big apple coun-
try in California a little south of San
Francisco. from whose port, jacksonville,
other port of the world Tire most of the
northwestern apples go by rail to Chi
cago, New York and New England, and
not a few are sent across the continent
by rail and thence by steamer to London.
1t surprised me to learn that one of
the most profitable apple regions is in
Colorado. It lies in the western part of
the state, on the other side of the
Rockies. and quite a distance from Den
yer. The climate there is such that it
has had crops when those of the north
west have failed.
Coming farther east, there is big
apple region in Missouri, Oklahoma and
Texas. The Ozark mountain country in
many years has led the United States
in the production of the big red apDle,
and there are large orchards in Kansas
and Nebraska and also in the states on
the other side of the Mississippi river.
Just now some of the most successful
orchards of 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
agricultural scientist who has an orchard
of 200 trees there. 1t was planted by his
father some 30-odd years ago. That
orchard BROUGHT in $500 this year, MAX
ing a net profit of about 5000 per acre.
Apples of New York and New England.
The old reliable apple country of the
United States is northern New York 1t
has been producing large crops of fine
fruit for wears, and with modern spray
ing and improved cultivation it is now
yielding more than ever. Representative
apple buyers of the country have annual