Winter Meeting. ' 167 



WHAT I HAVE ACCOMPLISHED ON FIVE ACRES. 

 (Bv C. W. Halliburton, ^loberly, Mo.) 



J/;-. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : 



On the 15th of November I received a letter from our worthy sec- 

 retary asking me to prepare for this meeting a paper on the apple 

 orchard, and I most respectfully declined. My reasons for so doing 

 are, that I had never grown a commercial apple orchard to bearing size 

 and I did not feel equal to the occasion. However, I promised a short 

 paper on the subject as indicated above. 



Two years ago I prepared a paper on the above subject and read 

 it before our county society. What suggested this subject to my 

 mind was that in my travels through our and adjoining counties 

 my calling (that of a nurseryman) brought me in contact with men 

 that owned small farms or tracts of land and they frequently said, 

 "Tf I had more land would plant an orchard," and as I said and do say, 

 '"Those are the men to plant trees,"' for, what will bring the returns that 

 five acres planted in fruit will? My home place consists of five acres 

 located in the corporate limits of east Moberly. I commenced seven 

 }ears ago to plant fruit and will give you a brief outline of what I 

 have accomplished. I have planted about 80 apples, 250 pears, 200 

 cherries, 200 peach, 100 plum, 500 raspberries, 400 gooseberries, 100 cur- 

 rants, 200 grapes, and about 2 acres in strawberries, besides various 

 other vines and shrubs. I have still a small space of ground yet un- 

 planted, and have ample lawn and barn lot. My wife says she thinks 

 when I plant the remaining ground that I will "jack up" the house and 

 plant where it now stands. You may wonder how I have succeeded 

 in planting so much fruit on so small an acreage. I plant my rasp- 

 l^erries and gooseberries in my tree rows and the spaces between I place 

 strawberries. I have grown strawberries successfully for five years in 

 this manner among my cherries, plum and apple trees. Of course a 

 great deal of fertilizer must be used. I have planted Standard Keifer 

 i:)ears on my poorest ground and have never put a knife to them except 

 to remove water sprouts. 



My first plantings are now in bearing and have borne four siicces- 

 .-^ive crops. The one of 1900 was sold for an amount equal to the cost 

 of the ground, which was $140 per acre, and this year's was equally as 

 good in revenue, but not in quality. The money makers for me have 

 been the Earlv Richmond and Late Duke in cherries, Keifer and Duchess 



