Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-28

time there are several thousand acres
which now contain trees one year old
or less.
The commercial value of fruit in
Adams county became apparent in
1898. At that time several persons
living in the fruit belt went to the
exposition at st. Louis. While there
In the course of conversation Moan
Sheely, who died several years ago,
was mentioned as a grower who had
many apples for sale. The 'St. Louis
man made a trip east to the Sheely
farm and bought the orchards pro-
duction. A good price was paid and
soon neighbors, seeing the possibility
of profitable business, began to plart
fruit trees in abundance. From that
time the then small fruit belt began
to grow and although after these years
1t can be said to be only in its in
fancy, it has grown far beyond the
expectations of those early growers.
Yesterdays inspection party left
Goodyear station about 8 o'clock and
visited various farms until after 4
o'clock in the afternoon. A stop was
made at the hotel in Arndtsville for
dinner, the party devour 'ng a dozen
chickens, to say nothing of the side
dishes.
DR.. ]. G. Slower who has approxi-
mately 700 acres in peaches and
apples, expects to get $4,000 baskets
of peaches and $4,000 barrels of apples
from his farm this year. w. S. Adams,
another well-known grower, who has
nothing but peach trees on one of his
tracts of 125 acres, will get $4,000
baskets from his orchard. d. M. Min
nick, who owns a farm near Biglers-
VILE, and who lives at Chambersburg,
will get 5000 barrels of apples.
The Tyson brothers, whose farms
are known throughout Adams county
for their beauty, have 800 acres of
peach and apple trees and their pro-
duction of thousands of baskets and
barrels last year will be far surpassed
this year. ]. w. Prickett, near Big
lersville, has 100 acres in apples, 5000
trees being planted. From these he
will be able TO pick 1000 barrels this
year. C. S. Hershey and w. E. Grove
will take 10000 baskets of peaches
and 1000 barrels of apples from their
farm is near Arndtsville, has 100
acres in peaches and the first full
crop will be pulled this year. This
production will add greatly to the out
put of the fruit belt. These growers
are only few of the many in the
belt and the figures are both smaller
and larger than those from some of
the other 1afnlSs DuI lIlSy BlNe du
idea of the great output for the year.
But not all of the fruit Is shipped
away in carload lots. Some of it is
evaporated, some sold in bulk, some
canned and some made into cider.
Last year so per cent of the apple
crop was barreled, 10 per cent. sold in
bulk, Az per cent. evaporated. 32h
per cent. canned and 8 per cent. was
made into cider. The output last year
was 563 per cent. greater than in 1903,
showing a growth in the fruit business
of 5% times in ten years.
At Biglersville and Garner's Sta
ton are two big canneries and during
last year 120 carloads of canned ap-
pies were sent from these places. This
year 1t is possible that the output will
be greater. The cold storage plant at
Bigiersville has a capacity for $4,000
barrels of apples and this building will
be filed. Near the cold storage plant
is the community packing house
being constructed by a number OF
growers who will pack their fruit there
instead of on the farm.
All of the apples coming from
Adams county are not of the same
quality and the growers do not at.
tempt to sell them as such. There is
standard in the community and the
apples. known as the best, alway,