The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-01-02
SUCCESS !.
WITH APPLES
Stories Of Growth Which come
From Haywood and Bun
cOmbe Counties.

The following from the Southern
Field, the publication issued by the
! Land and Industrial Department of
the Southern railway is good evidence
OF what is being done in the fruit
growing just over the North Carolina
line in Bnncombe and Haywood cour-
Ties. --"
sin the rich mountain coves and on
the sheltered slopes of the Appalachian
from Battrick County, Virginia, south
ward through, Western North Carolina
and Georgia there has been notable de-
velopnent in commercial fruit grow
ing in just few years. Quite recently
there were few commercial orchards
from Stuart, in Patrick County, Vir-
ginia. through Tayloryille, Mt. Airy,
North Wilkesboro, Black Mountain,
Asheville, Waynesville, Henderson
vile, Tryon, North Carolina, and in
the mountain section of Georgia, but
today there are many thrifty, revenue.
producing properties, with hundreds
of thousands Of young trees in these
districts soon to come into bearing.
"rwelve wears ago c. A. Webb
bought IS acres of land IN Craven's
Cove, son Beaverdam Creek, III Pun
combe County, for $500. He had no
previous experience with fruit grow
ing, but following his purchase he be-
gan a course OF reading on apple cul-
ture, and got in touch with horticul-
tural authorities. AS result he plant
ed $3.50 trees-Gano, Winesap, stay
man. and Delicious-On so acres along
a hillside with northern exposure. A
stream running through the orchard
provides air drainage: the attitude is
from $3.50 to 2.7to feet; and special at
tention has been given TO cultivation.
pruning and spraying. I.ime-sulphur
rays are used IN winter, and after
The bloom the orchards sprayedtwice,
arsenate Of lead being added 10 the
original spray. D..
"Six years AFTER planting, the orchard
became revenue producer, the crop
that year bringing 800. The trees
are now from eight to eleven years old,
and the crop this year being given by
the owner as between 1000 and 4,AO
bushels, worth $500. Mr.. Webb cs-
Inmates his expense for pruning, spray
ing and cultivation at 81 per acre.
son the slopes around this orchard
i the Government Weather Bureau has
established five weather stations to re
cord temperature and atmospheric
conditions on Northern and Southern
j, slopes, and in the bottom of the cove,
; for the purpose Of establishing the
relative merits OF various exposures
Tor orchards.
, ''Eourteen hundred acres near Aza-
: lea, a few miles from AShevilie Oh the
+ Southern Railway, have been bought
recently and 400 acres will be put in
orchard, according to announcement
by the purchasers.
In Haywood County, west of Bun
combe, and along the Murphy branch
of the Southern Railway there is
evidence of progressive horticultural
methods. A fruit growers exchange is
in operation this season for the first
time. and its members are highly APP
preciative of the benefits of co-opera-
ton.
One of the best illustrations of re-
generating a rundown orchard is given
in the experience Of 5. I. Graves, n
Tennesseean who five ears ago bought
a 2O0-rcre orchard of 5000 trees in Hay
wood County for SIG. 900 cash and 4, 200
acres in cut.over timber land, sub
sequently sold for SIS 800, making his
total investment for the property SlS.-
500.
"When the new owner took posses
sion of the property the 10 acres in
orchard had been so neglected that
running briarS and locust bushes al
: most buried the trees in their rank
growth.
, "The fr year after The change OF
ownership the new owner didn't get
a commercial crop of apples from the
) entire orchard, such was its condition.
, This year his apple crop aggregates
/ 5000 barrels, representing a value OF
81, 800. The property IS valued at S1o,-