Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1912-07-26
Ia, 900 BOXES APPLES
AT EISMANN'S ORCHARD

The average family with a fairly
we'll developed apple tooth would be
eating the fruit that got Adam into
so much trouble with a good deal of
regularity if it consumed one forty
pound box week.
The head of that average family
would be pretty apt to consign to the
waste basket the advice of friend
If told, when planting out the fam
lily orchard, that single tree in the
Rogue River valley would produce
apples enough to supply him for a
year.
Yet trees of that kind, and bear
ing crops that will fill fifty of the
standard apple boxes, are growing
today within sight of the city of
Grants Pass.
{. H. Eismann has got Let kind
OF trees. He has not only got them
singly, but he's got whole flocks of
them in his orchard five miles below
town. When the neophyte is intro
duced to scientific apple culture as
practiced by Mr.. Eismann he knows
why 1t was that the Garden of Eden
was located in an apple orchard. II
they grew orchards in those days like
-lr Eismann's, it was the proper
place for it, For the Eismann or
chard is a thing of beauty. And it IS
more than that; it is a thing of pro-
fit.
That row of twenty-five trees will
produce a carload of fruit, said Mr..
Eismann as he piloted wondering
newspaper man through the low
hanging, fruit-laden limbs that block
ed the path in the orchard.
That tree you are under is good
for fifty boxes, and that next one is
forty box tree; and that Yellow
Newtown will pick forty-five boxes"
and so Mr. Eismann continued on,
his trained eve telling at glance
about what each individual tree
should produce. And there are no
blanks. Every tree is a prize win
ner. All are carrying capacity loads,
the difference between fifty-box
tree and one that will produce but
thirty being size and manner of
limbing. .Twenty-one years ago Mr..
Eismann's father set out this orchard
in question. It later passed into the
ownership Of Eismann Brothers, and
later again Of c. H. Eismann, its
present owner.
There are $4,000 boxes, or twen-
ty-two carloads of apples in the thlr-
ty-f1ve acres of old orchard" said Mr..
Eismann. "And every apple is a per-
feet apple. think ! have got one
OF the finest crops ever out OF doors;
clean, no worms, not a mar or
blemish of any kind There are al
ready many of them four-tier in size,
and they will continue to grow for
ten weeks yet. My whole crop will
be Latter this season.
Spraying, cultivation, thinning
and irrigation, done right and timed
right are what make a perfect apple
crop. l irrlgate about three times
during the season, and bring my ap-
pie to maturity at the proper time,
thus making it not only good to look
at and OF the best quality, but the
best keeper as we'll The quality this
year Is better than the ordinary and
the quantity is all the tree can hold
We thinned twice, and every tree has
got an even and a full load. There
are single acres In this orchard that
have yielded 1000 boxes OF fruit
that sold at $3.50 per box, or a gross
return Of $500 from the acre, said
Mr.. Eismann And the crop was
never better than II is now"
The bulk Of the crop in the Els
mann orchard is the Yellow Newtown
and the spitzenberg. There are
some Winesaps and Baldwlns and
Ben Davis, but the two flrst named
are most profitable commercially
reaching the highest possible state Of
perfection in the Rogue valley. Near
ly all the Newtons find market in
England, while the Spitzenbergs go
to New York. The usual price I. o. b
here is $3.50 per box. So there is
something In the apple business be-
sides just work.
The Eismann orchard consists OF
sixty-hve acres, there being in addl-
tion to the old orchard already men
tionrd, thirty acres OF Hve-year-old
trees, twenty OF It being inter-plant-
ed 20 peaches And you will hunt a
long time to find anything that can
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