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WINTER MEETING AT CARTHAGE. 165 



A large buyer from Chicago told me in 1891 : "You need have no 

 fear in the next iifteen years that the price of apples in the United 

 States will fall below twenty-live or thirty cents per bushel." One 

 bushel of apples will now pay for two bushels of wheat. You can 

 grow apples in only a small part of the United States and of the world. 

 Wheat can be grown almost everywhere. The great Northwest is to 

 supplied. Our cities are growing more rapidly than the country dis- 

 tricts. The mining interest of the country is great and increasing. 

 Land in the east is high and insects are growing worse. I would like 

 some one to show us how we are going to produce enough apples to 

 supply the demand. It cannot be overdone. 



Sam Miller — Mr. Murray is just right. The ocean greyhounds are 

 now carrying our apples across the sea to the old world. The poorer 

 classes scarcely get a taste of fruit. Let us grow enough to give all a 

 plentiful supply. Cattle-raising will go down as fruit-growing goes 

 up. It takes about seven years for an orchard to come into profitable 

 bearing. How many children will there be in this country in seven 

 years ? Millions of them. 



Mr. Turten — Taking everything into consideration, I don't see for 

 the life of me how the business can be overdone for flfteen or twenty 

 years at least. Many trees will never bear ; cider and vinegar fac- 

 tories will use a great many. In the eastern States like New York and 

 Pennsylvania, the soil to a great extent is exhausted, and will not pro- 

 duce apples. The great apple country is Missouri, Michigan, Kansas, 

 western and northern Arkansas. Lately a young man asked me, what 

 would you do, go to southern Missouri, move to town, or what would 

 you do? He was a married man. I told him to go to town ; there is 

 nothing like it. You will have to trust people every day, and that is a 

 good way to make a living ! He was afraid the apple business would 

 be overdone. 



Dr. J. Hensley — The rapid development of the country and the 

 vast territory west and south of us that is liota successful apple coun- 

 try will make a market for our fruit. The great south, where they 

 cannot grow apples^ and the dense population of the east and north, 

 will depend on us for apples. The more apples we raise the bigger 

 prices we can get. A few apples will not draw buyers. If you have 

 large orchards, you will have this country filled up with gentlemen 

 ready to buy your apples in the field even before they are matured. 



Mr. Durand — I have no way of judging the future but by the 

 past. Sixty years ago a man in Ohio offered to pay one dollar to a 

 tenant for every apple tree he would plant. The man set 160 acres in 

 trees, and the owner gave him the land rather than pay for the trees. 



