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.WINEsAP TREE OF The YAKIMA VALLEY

apple buyers of the country have annual
meetings at Niagara Falls, where they ar
range the management of this crop and
whether 1t 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 num-
ber of abandoned farms have been made
profitable by the rejuvenation of the old
apple orchards through trimming and
cultivation.
There is a district in Virginia known
as Apple Pie Ridge. 1t is in the Appa-
lachian mountains, and I shall dignity
the whole of that system by that name.
Apples can be raised in selected spots
through that whole range, running from
There are fine apple lands In the Allie
ghenies. and thousands of acres Of trees
are now being set out in different parts
of the Blue Ridge. In Albemarle county.
ferson lived. they raise the famous
Albemarle pippins. which bring from
So to $40 a barrel the greater part of
them being shipped to England. That
was the favorte apple of Queen Victoria
King Edward ate 1t before going to bed,
and King George has been brought up
upon it. They are now using A1bemarle
pippiEs 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 noun
tains. and of late 1t has been thriving
in the Shenandoah valley | know of
men there who are netting from ten TO
twenty thousand dollars year from their
pippin trees. and there are numerous
farmers who make more out of their
orchards than from wheat. corn or live
stock
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
dustry there is in its beginning. but they
are setting out trees by the hundreds of
thousands and lands are jumping In
value. The country is only about six
years old as marketing region. 1t was
in 1905 or 1908 that the commercial or
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 Si5 to $500 per acre. the
latter price being usually for land on
which trees have been planted.
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The same might be said Of an extensive
region of apple country in the mountains
of West Virginia, where large orchards
have been set out and from where annual
shipments of many carloads are made.
There are big orchards in western Mary
land and in southern Pennsylvania, re-
gions in which thousands of trees are
now being planted.
The profits of the southern orchards are
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IN THE WENATcHEE VALLEY ORCHARDS YIELD
$500 AND UPWARDS PER ACRE

years ago and syndicates are formed to
manage orchards at a fixed price per
acre or tree. The planting is very exten-
sive and this is especially so in the Pa
cific northwest and in Virginia, West Vir-
gina and Maryland. 1t is also true of
the other apple regions, although to a
minor extent.
Last year. am told, the ship
ments of apples from the Washing
ton, Oregon and Idaho regions amounted
to ten thousand carloads. and moreover
when the trees that are now being plant
ed come into bearing, say ten years from
now, there will be from that region more
than one hundred thousand carloads.
The most of these shipments go in boxes.
but l venture carload of barrels would
contain about the same number of apples.
At 200 barrels TO the car. which is an
average shipment in the east-I have my
self shipped 300 barrels in one car-this
one hundred thousand carloads would
equal twenty million barrels of apples.
This Is the potential product ten years
from now of the Pacific northwest and
that part of the country produces a COM
paratively small portion of our total
crop.
apple crop of the United States has
ranged from 22O00, 0o0 to o., 600 600 bar
rels. We lad 22W0,G0 barrels in 1900
and during the past five years the aver
age has been about 2s.0s0,o00 barrels.
The big yields were all during the earlier
part OF the decennal period. the stats-
tics of which the Department of Agri-
culture considers unreliable.
At the estimate I have given for the
Pacific northwest the crop of that re-
gion in 1921 would be almost equal to
the total crop of the United States for
1909. and If a proporticnate increase
goes on in the other known apple re-
gions there may be an enormous giut in
the market. This is a possible situation
which the present investor in apple lands
should consider. Even if the 69.90HU
barrels were correct. the product ten
years from now. supposing the orchards
just planted to come into bearing. will
probably be far in excess of that figure.
On the other hand, by cooperation and
advertising and the proper handling OF
the crop there is no doubt that the United
States will consume or export all the
apples that are now being planted. This
is one of the big works which Uncle Sam
is doing. One branch OF the bureau
of pomology is devoted to 1t. II has its
agents at home and abroad, and its in
spectors are instructing the people. Ou:
export OF apples has already reached
1000 900 barrels. and at reduced prices
and with more care in packing it can be
greatly increased. What We need is the
same kind of work that has been done
by southern California as to its orange
crop. The organizations there have so
systematized the shipping and marketing
that oranges are cheaper than apples In
most parts of the United States
dropped into the Center market, here in
Washington. yesterday and asked the
price of some No. 1 Wenatchee apples.
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,iAt ARIA rs KEPT \ PRISONER.

point Of view of hygiene. Years of per-
suas!on and artifce have failed to ge;
him to eat and sleep regularly. Par
ticularly in regard to eating he shows
an almost maniacal obstinacy. AS re-
suit, 1t is impossible to give him warn,
food and years ago it was decided that =
was better to give cold nourishment than
warm food which he would eat only whe
it was cold. He refuses to sleep at reg
lar hours. Maneuvers of various kind.
must always be applied In order to &c;
him into the open air. A decade age
his bad health was ascribed to such bad
habits. But while the bad habits con-
tinued, the health began 70 get bette,
and it has kept steadily improving
The doctors declare that IL the ma
jestaet" were dropped. and IL Otto Were
handled like an ordinary iunatic. it would
be better for his mind and body. He
could at least he carried out Of his rooms.
and thus compelled to take exercise. This
Is not done. because it Is against tradi
tions When Otto, then heir. was fnterne@
at Schleiheim before being sent to Fuer-
stenried. his brother, King Ludwig IL
then himself on the road to insanity
gave orders that he should be treated as
future king. Force was not to be used
for any purpose. except to prevent his
wig lived, as whenever Otto became par
ticularly obstreperous the king used to
come and see him. and Otto. however
fractions. always responded to his broth
ers appeals. When the present mona
genarian, Prince Regent Luitpold, became
regent he repeated this order. That Is
the reason why Otto 10 never examined
by doctors. and beyond the fact that he
II big. broad-shouldered and Increasingly
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4 -sA<AAp = Aaa-hh- AhAS.s ot LO va ia
head, frowned puzzedly and then broke
into contented laugh. The laugh was
interpreted as meaning that he remem
bered their names. He had a particularly
good memory for archdukes Of the Aus
trlan imperial house.
Otto had fought in the war of 1868 or
the side of Austria. Years after he had
ceased to make any ineligible remarks
he startled his doctors by asking II the
Kaiser Francis Joseph was still alive A
few months ago he suddenly asked the
question: Where is Mai. Orf?" His at
tendant imagined that MAI. Orff' was a
figment of the kings Imagination. and
made no answer. Only later did he learn
that Orff was the kings tutor. but that
Otto had not seen him nor heard from him
for fifty years. That last flicker Of in
telligence was shown about last Christ
mas. Since then the king has given no
sign OF lucidity or memory, and doctors
believe that he has reached the hnal
stage Of his malady. and will henceforth
be absolutely dead to the outside world.
Ottos physical health Is good. and he
Is q strong man for his sixty-three years.
The more disease takes possession Of his
brain, the more 1t seems to avoid his
body. Ten years ago his health was bad.
and he even seemed to be breaking up.
Suddenly. after three-day fit OF vio-
lence, he began to recover, and today his
health IL better than ever. The king had
then no organic malady. but his habits
were, and still are. impossible from the
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New ORCHARDS ARE PLANTED ALL OVER THE COUNTRY

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. spraying, packing and
marketing should make them pay quite
as we'll. Many Of the western fruit grow
ers realize this, and l know personally a
number of orchardists who have sold out
their lands in Washington and Idaho and
are now buying southern lands and set
ting them out. One such man recently
bought over 80 acres right on the rail-
road within half mile or so of the f,.o
old town of Leesburg. He paiu some
thing like $50 or $40 an acre, and he ex-
poets to raise as good apples Hithin
about forty miles Of the National Capt.
tai as can be raised in Colorado or Wash
ington. 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
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feshy nothing exact is known as TO his
physical condition.
Probably the king will outlive the heir
md regent. his uncle, and also the next
heir, his cousin. Ludwig, who himself is
sixty-five years old. In any case, Prince
Ludwig a professional gentleman with
no kingly instincts, will certainly re-
nounce the throne. If so. the next
Bavarian king will be Prince Ludwig $
son Rupprecht who was born in 1863.
and is married to a duchess of Bavaria.
Rupprecht's father and grandfather are
both noted for their physical and mental
soundness, SO IL is likely there will be a
new Bavarian line. free from the taint of
insanity shown by Otto, by his brother
Ludwig II. by the late Austrian kaiserin
and by several other members of the
house OF Wittelsbach.
This new line is of special interest q
English people. for there are still a good
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acres upon which he Is starting with ar
orchard of 5000 trees, one-half of the
profits of which he expects to give to
foreign missions.
There is an Albemarle pippin orchard
on the Fairfax estate. formerly owned by
'1gly well, and near there is a little or
chard of less than six hundred trees
which has been so we'll managed by a
young lady farmer that it is an object
lesson for miles around. In the latter
case the trees were set out in $780, twen-
ty-one years ago, and it was sixteen
years after that before they began to
give crops commercially profitable. One
can plant 500 trees on twelve acres of
what that girl did with her trees. In
1906 her net profits were s1.e12: in 1907.
Ss62: in 1908, S1,227; in 1909. $3.24S, and
in 1910 she had gross receipts of over
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is worth $500 and upward per acre, and
the orchards in bearing yield $500 or more
to the acre year.
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 Spok6ne last fall where they
gave away prizes which aggregated
of $1,000. At that show there were dis
plays from thirty-six different districts
in Washington, Oregon. California. Idaho
and Montana, and the apples We're shown
load to the box. They sent one train
load OF the exhibits from there to Chi
cago. 1t went by express and 1t carried
just LOCO, 900 apples.
Where are or best apple lands?
I have asked this question of several
Of the leading pomologists of the Agricul-
tural Department. and we have gone over
the country with 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 big apple coun-
try In California little south of San
francisco, from whose port, Watsonville
are shipped more apples than from any
other port of the world. The 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. 1t lies in the western part of
the state, on the other side of the Rock
les, and quite a distance from Denver
The climate there is such that it has had
crops when those of the northwest have
failed.
Coming farther east there is big ap-
PIE region In Missouri. Oklahoma and
Texas. The Ozark mountain country in
many years has led the United States
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 sue cessful
orchards Of the country are in western
Michigan. They run up along the coast
back into the interior. I know of one
agricultural scientist who has an or
chard of 2D trees there. 1t was planted
by his father some thirty-odd years ago.
That orchard brought in $500 this year.
making net profit Of about 5000 per
acre.
The old reliable apple country of the
United States is northern New York. 1t
has been producing large crops of fine
fruit for years, and with modern spray
ing and improved cultivation it is now
yielding more than ever. Representative
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Moreover, her trees have begun to show
what they will do and there is no reason
why her crop should not be greatly in
creased as the years go on.
Stories similar to these are known to
all who have any acquaintance with the
apple regions Of the United States. They
are founded on present conditions and are
the cause Of the enormous extent to which
new orchards are being planted all over
the country. Many of the government
clerks at Washington are investing in
orchard schemes. Some of the fruit .ex-
perts of the Agricultural Department have
their Independent orchards, and not
few of Uncle Sans employees have gone
into the business and are making good
At the same time apple lands are being
exploited as orange lands were some
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years nder no sane King ufu bdNdrid
so flourish as under this mad one.
Yet his grateful subjects will not see
him. unless such irrepressible loyalists
sally out OF Munich for the neighbor-
ing palace-prison OF Fuerstenried and spy
over the unscalable walls. They will
at best catch a glimpse OF a restless. I'M
tidy, heshy-face old gentleman. brood
ing al a window. counting the hairs in
his beard or reading a newspaper. II
they had eagle eyes they would notice
that the newspaper Is upside down. or
held sideways. or is even white shirt
which the scholarly recluse is diligently
reading 1t is painful spectacle But
il is all that remains of Otto l. who mas
been queer" since birth. mad since 1870.
stark mad since 1878. but nevertheless
king over the second most important
German state ever since his almos,
equally mad brother Ludwig drowned
himself in 1856
king Otto occupies big suite Of rooms
on the first floor of the Fuerstenried pal
ace. and there is quite as free In his
movements as is the average monarch
In practice that means that he goes all
over the palace. always In charge OF two
attendants and one Of his two resident
doctors. Sometimes, but by no means
every day. he goes into the park and
stares Iistlessiy at the statues and foun-
,ains Fuerstenried is comfortable and
even royal, and once long ago attempts
were made TO make IL even human. Ihat
was some thirty years ago when
oprinists still hoped that the king-then
Prince Otto-might partially recover
Pictures OF Hohenschwangau and OF
mountainous Berchresgadener, oeioSeo
haunts OF the kings youth, were hung on
the walls In the hope that they might
evoke lucid moments. photographs of
Otto's dearly loved mother were arranged
so as to meet his eye, and even his old
school books were left about.
All these except the pictures have dis
appeared Nearly fifteen years ago the
king. in a 1T Of frenzy. destroyed his
mothers portraits. His history since then
shows nothing but q continuous lapsing
into complete torpidity Of mind. insensi-
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kMGZE SIM A1m MaEE MaE$sslA e. lARRA8

DIG Money in Fruit-The
Apple Kings of the North
west and What They Are
Making Our Chief Apple
Regions and Their Thousands
of Acres of New Orchards
Albemarle Pippins for King
George of England What
One Southern Girl Did-Will
the Apple Market Be Glutted
"A Suggestion of Warning
Grading and Foreign Compe-
tition-Stove-Pipe Packing.
Copyright. 1911. by Frank G. carpentg)
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precious than the three golden apples
which grew in the garden of Hesperides,
and for which Hercules upheld the globe
on his shoulders when he sent old Atlas
10 get them. That was the second time
that the apple upset the world. third
was when Juno, Venus and Minerva con-
tended as to their beauty for the golden
apple offered by Paris. the CRATER. who.
being brihed by Venus with Helen Of
Troy thus brought about the long ten
year war which laid that city in ashes.
Even the Bible speaks of apples Of gold
in pitchers of silver. Well, that is what
we are having in some parts OF our
country The apple crop is revolutioniz-
ing whole districts. 1t has lifted the
prices of lands to the clouds and has
made it possible for the clodhopper to
walk upon velvet.
What would you think of a country
where nearly every farmer owns his au-
tomobile. where his house is lighted by
electricity and he has water on tap.
where scores of families go every year to
southern California to get away from
the cold. and where you cannot throw a
stone without striking man who has
money in the bank? That, I am told at
the Department of Agriculture is the
condition of half dozen different dis
tricts in the Pacific northwest.
Take the Hood River valley. in Oregon.
where the apples and pumpkins are OF
about the same size, Orchard land there
is worth from $500 to $1,000 an acre. and
orchards already set out will bring 5000
and upward per acre Said one Of the
department officials TO me:
Il was recently talking with an or
chardist who had ten acres Of bearing
trees in one of the best districts of Wash
ington. | asked him what his land was
worth He replied:
1T ought to bring me in at least
$4,000
We'll said l. after thinking a mo-
ment. L don't know that that is too
much. You have ten acres, and that
would be just 81 900 per acre
Z" But l mean $4,000 per acre said
the man. 1t will bring a good income
on that and leave fair sinking fund
And thereupon he took out his pencil
big percentage on his own valuation.
The Pacific northwest is the Utopia of
the farmer" said another OF the agncul
tural explorers. The apple growers are
mostly educated men and the social con-
ditions are high In Hood River. which Is
a town of 5000, there is University
Club 10 which belong $50 college grad
uates. North Yakima looks for all the
world like 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 electricity
home has running water and telephone.
and scores Of the farmers own their own
motor cars.
The bare land in the wenatchee valley
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came over from Hanover and ouste6
them. There iS no need. however. for
King George to be alarmed Prince Rup-
precht will be quite content to reign over
his Bavarians and has no ambition TO
i've in England.
That Otto is king Is due to the magma
nimity OF his uncle. the prince regent.
Time and again Prince Luitpold has been
urged by the kaiser and by the kaiser's
father to depose his mad nephew and pro-
claim himself king in title as he is in fact
and in doing SO he could count on the
support of every Bavarian. for Bavaria
under his wise reign has prospered ex-
ceedingly. But Luitpold doesn't care
for the empty shadow when he has the
substance OF kingship and he always re-
plies that there is nothing In the Bavarian
constitution authorizing the deposition OF
a king even il he be mad. Perhaps too.
honest Luitpold realizes that II 10 q bad
thing for the trade of kingship 70 get the
people into the way OF making and un-
making kings.
Copyright, 1911. in the Cnited States by Curtio
Brown. AL British rights reserved.)
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WRITE OF the Big
Red Apple. 1t Is
creating almost as
much trouble for
US as did that into
which Mother Eve.
at the advice OF
the snake, sank
her pearly teeth
when she lost us
I h e Garden of
Eden. 1t Is more
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was told that they We're 40 cents dozen.
or more than cents apiece. ! then pick
ed up a navel orange which was larger
than any of the apples and was told
that IL was selling for 81 cents a doz-
en-. or less than 3 cents apiece. One can
buy oranges and bananas in any town
and in almost every grocery store in the
country. and there are many regions
where oranges are sold and apples are
not This Is merly a matter OF prices
handling and marketing. The apple will
keep longer than the orange. the latter
being a perishable fruit. Nevertheless,
get
Said one OF Uncle Sans fruit experts:
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 consumption OF the ap-
pie crop"
IF our apple industry is to be per-
manently successful" continued this man.
I'VE must have rigid inspection and abso-
lutte honesty as 10 grading and market
ing. AS il is now there are too many
tricks in the trade. In the northwest this
is prevented largely by cooperation and
state inspection. If a man ships poor
apples or grades poor ones as good ones,
his apples are thrown out by the shippers
and he may lose a whole carload by a
bad box or so. In Canada the govern
ment inspects all the fruit not only that
which goes abroad. but that which Is sold
in the local markets. and the man who
sells No. IS No. Is. or culls as good
apples is liable to a fine. There are fixed
ways of packing and grading. and the in
spectors go from orchard TO orchard and
report.
Have You ever heard OF stoyepipe
racking?" this man vert on. That has
been done with some of our apples which
have been shipped 70 England and Ger.
many, and has greatly injured the trade.
1t has also hurt the sale of our apples at
home
What do you mean by that" I asked.
Il mean the laying three or four rows
of fine red or yellow apples on the bot
tom of the barrel, fitting them in so that
they look like fancy No. Is, and then
placing inside the barrel a pasteboard
cylinder. which would hold about bushel
or one-third of the barrel. This is so set
that good apples can be fitted in around II
and when that Is done the cylinder is fill
ed with culs. II does not come within
five or six inches of the top of the barrel.
After filing the pasteboard is pulled ont
and the top is faced up with fine apples
In other words you have q barrel of what
corresponds 10 the quotation.
A goodly apple rotten at the core"
And moreover the rot cannot be 6iscov-
cred without emptying the barrel
would say that there Is no use in
attempting TO play such tricks upon the
London market as il is now constituted.
for the British pour out a sample bar
rels from every shipment before any bids
are made FRANK @. CARPENTER.