The Ordway new era., 1916-07-21
Cherry Harvest
Is On In County
Fruit Industry Grows Into One
Of the Many Important
Industries Here
READY MARKET FOUND

Cherry growing in Crowley county
is by no means a small industry and
the many new orchards which are
coming into bearing make the har-
vest of this crop one of the big
events at this season of the year.
The productive orchards are mostly
all new ones, some of them produc-
ing this year and last for the first
time. The production in the various
orchards is good and the quality Is
most choice. The cherries had some
little difficulty in the spring by the
frosts and some orchards were hit
by hail, but as whole the elements
acted mainly as thinner and this
allowed the fruit to attain excellent
size
One of the very interesting sights
of the harvest was that at the D. C.
Roberts orchard, just at the north
edge of town. Monday morning pick
ing in this orchard was started, and
as carly as 5 o'clock that mornine
there weere harvesters at the trees.
By things had become lively and
during the early part of the morning
there were between thirty and thirty
five vehicles lined up along the
fences in the road in front of the
Roberts home. In the orchard there
were between 135 and $50 persons
gathering cherries The fruit was
ripening evenly and Mr.. Roberts
estimated that his crop would be
harvested within four or five days,
except possibly a few trees in an
other orchard.
The Roberts crop was sold to To-
cal consumers who picked them
themselves. AS fast asthe gatherers
filed their baskets they went to the
weighing place arranged at the road
in front of the house. and by the
middle of the forenoon boxes and
buckets of cherries were covering
the ground all about.
Cherry harvest will be in the A. G.
Bowers and o. H. Griffith orchards
at Crowley the first ofthe week. The
crop has been sold to the Manzanola
canning company and will be made
into Denice canned and preserved
goods. In the Bowers orchard there
will be about fifty pickers at work
and almost as many in the Griffith
orchard.
Mr. Bowers has $3.50 trees and his
output this harvest is estimated at
100000 pounds. Picking will last
about ten days, running longer than
might be if the factory was able to
handle them as fast as they were
harvested In the Griffith orchard
there are 5000 trees, and the crop
is estimated at between 10000 and
$4,000 pounds. The fruit in each of
these orchards is of fine quality with
but few hail-scarred cherries.
The orchards in the vicinity OF
King Center and Crowley have pro-
duced we'll this year. Among them
are the M A Noble, with eighteen
acres Of 1O-year-old cherry trees;
the Stanard orchard of ten acres of
, /, 2, and 3-year-old trees, some OF
them into bearing now; and the H..
T. Craig orchard of considerable
size There are, several smaller or
chards in that vicinity and the crop
is finding good market, the mar
ket for the larger growers being the
Manzanola Canning company.
Sam DeMarcus, who is in chargesof
the Jannette Sisters ranch, west OF
Ordway. will harvest a good crop.
There are about ten acres Of orr
chard, a total of approximately 1900
trees. He has had a ready market
| for the entire crop. q;
Among the early cherries were
good crops raised by D. c. Roberts
and ]. F. Wormuth.s S ~
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