The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1915-10-07
A TRIP
TO PARK
CENTER
ORCHARDS
CROP IN THAT SECTION WILL BE
LARGE, BUT APPLES ARE SOME
WHAT SMALLER THAN NOR
NAL.
SEASON IS LATER THAN USUAL

People Of leisure, who have nothing
special to occupy their attention
should drive out into the apple-grow-
ing sections about Canon City these
beautiful October days see the trees
laden with apples and the pickers at
work harvesting the ripened fruit.
Such a trip. now that there is tonic
and restfulness in the atmosphere,
would be exhilerating to an unusual
degree and would afford the excur-
sionist an opportunity of witnessing
the method of gathering and prepar-
ing the apple crop for market, about
which very little is known to many
people
In nearly all of the orchards the
trees are bending down. umbrella
shaped. under a load of bright-hued
fruit as If to invite the picker to re-
lieve them of their burden. Every
where the rancher and thei rassist-
ants are industriously picking. box
ing and hauling apples to the dealers
to be loaded on the cars and shipped
to consumers in distant parts of the
state beyond The scene is a busy
one and win well repay an Inspection
from all who are interested in fruit
growing. and there are few who are
not directly or indirectly concerned
in II. a
Tuesday evening the writer had the
pleasure OF making hasty automobile
ltrip TO Nelson Brothers ranch on
Park Center and Of witnessing the
harvesting Of the apple crop there.
which is typical OF what is taking
place at a score OF other orchards in
the vicinity. as well as on Lincoln
Park. in Fruitmere and other fruit
SON Brothers ranch consisted of
eighteen and three quarters acres.
all of which is set out in apple trees.
the ma jor part of them in full bear
, the Nelson ranch are of the Jonathan
variety. the remainder being princi-
rally winesaps. and Missouri Pippins.
OF the older producing trees there
Jonathans. from which il is expected
the yield this year will be between
four and FIVE thousand boxes of
comereial fruit. divided in about the
usual proportion between what is
known as the "Choice" and Fancy"
kinds. There will be in addition to
these a large quantity of "culls."
which Nelson BROTHERS have arranged
to dispose of at fifty cents hundred
pounds.
While the apples grown on Park
Center this year are trihe smaller
than usual. and not so desirable on
that account. they are finely colored
and of excellent flavor. In most of
the orchards in that locality may be
seen in the fruit by careful inspec-
tion the effects of hail storm in the
early months of the summer while
the fruit was in the formative stage
OF its growth While these hail
pits" are very small. many of them
almost microscopic. they detract in
some measure from the value of the
fruit SO far as its marketability is
concerned. but do not injure it in the
least for consumption.
There is on Park Center something
like one hundred and fifty acres Of
producing orchards. besides many
cherry. plum and other kinds of fruit
trees. to say nothing Of such smaller
fruits as eurrants. gooseberries.
strawberries. etc. of which a great
quantity is annually grown there. All
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