Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-11-17

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NNI the best estimates of the Department OF Agrl-
Wv culture nearly sixty-eight million barrels of
APPLES will be. placed upon the market this season
This million barrels less than last years crop
but inasmuch no exports whatever are going TOT
ward to Europe, Americans will have to eat a good
many apples this they expect to use the entire
supply. Many cities have been added to the mum
Der which hold annual apple days when every citizen
is urged to buy apples increasing number OF large
mercantile firms are adopting the pohcy Oh slVihe ap
pies away with each purchase of goods, and members
of the American Pathological society are required by
the laws their organization to order baked apples
whenever they hotel OF restaurant the farm
ers however, usual, are placing their nam conn
dence in the American appetite for fruit
Fruit is the one big staple the American diet
which has retained its normal equilibrium during the
European war apples oranges, figs and aprcots
are not necessary modern warfare. They can't be
used in manufacture of high explosives and they
do not maze a practicable food for the trenches 80
they stay with The price of bread and milk is
continually on rise; potatoes are fast
approaching the class of luxuries and 1t mas even oee
recently whispered that the price OF chewing gum As
going up But we still buy American apples and
Central American bananas at the same old figures
Outside Of the Orient the United States is
greatest fruteating the world and Americans
are born fruit-growers When ancestors landed on
Atlantic it is said that their FIRST act was
to choose the for their orchards and afterwards
decide where they going to place their houses
Today the average American does not feel satisfied I'M
less his country estate yard is planted with
at least few fruit Not long ago, a builder
was asked he managed to be so successful In
selling his newly-built ct will tell you said
the builder you probably won't believe mel plant
a few pear and plum trees in every back yard
Today fruit growing is one of the most important
factors in agriculture There not only numerous
fruit farms devoted entirely to fruit growing but
every other farm specialize in one thing
has its orchard usually its berry patches The apple
orchards are course the largest Beginning on the
eastern coast lower Virginia and extending north
to New England apples grown all through the north
west Pacific coast representing total value OF
some $S3 100000 Peaches come next occupying much
smaller area and aggregang S2S,0O000O year Grapes
and citrus fruits are grown in the next largest guam
titles and in the last statistics valued each at
S22 900 600 year. these figures 1t may be seen
that the apple crop four times great
that of the peach, the grape or the citrus fruit.
Since these figures compiled the fruit industry
has Increased its area value much greater pro-
portions The number of fruit companies oper-
ating throughout the United States is no longer limited
10 a few and many individuals have invested their
capital orchards In going into the business
of fruit growing. however the individual should con-
slider problem thoroughly and study all the factors
besides the actual ability of the ground TO grow fru
trees At the present time for example there is no
but that the production of some fruits is over
stimulated every time big crop occurs many OF the
farmers money. This last year with
peaches One had twelve carloads of peaches and
expected to make a lot of money on them. AS it
happened, however, every other farmer had just as
large crop the price of peaches went steadily
of making on his peaches the lost
a hundred
them being insufficient the cost of tree Gull
tivaton. labor, packing and shipping
The question Of shipping fruit is important
New the larger eastern cities of
the great markets of the nation the central
points distribution for all fruit coming from
section country New York state itself produces
more apples than any other state in the Union.
of of very fine quality, and others only
fair abut in any the New York farmer
profit product than does the Pacific
who grows a splendid variety of apples in Washington
and Oregon This is because the Oregon farmer pays
about four times much freight on his product as
the New York farmer The department of agriculture
urges every person who is thinking of growing fruit
to study aspect of the business carefully before
he makes the investment.