Apple Orchards. 347 



ALL ABOUT APPLES. 



The oldest, the hirgest, the richest, the best, 

 Whether grown in the East, or grown in the West, 

 For cider or jelly, sauce, puddings or pies. 

 The big red apples, the yellow cheeked apples. 

 Are the King of all fruits which the market supplies. 



ORCHAEDI^^G AS A BUSINESS. 



Written for Poultry, Fruit and Garden. 



Orcharding is a word that has not been known in its full meaning until 

 of late years, and especially so in the west. Not many years since if you 

 had told a person that you were going into the work of "orcharding" he 

 would hardly have known what you meant. To-day we have hundreds 

 of men who are "orcharding" in the truest and fullest sense of the word. 

 Years ago a person would have been thought wild who would plant an 

 orchard of 100 acres. To-day we find tkem by the hundreds over our 

 western country and many another who is planting 300 acres, 400 acres, 

 or perhaps even 1,000 acres. Now w^e are no more astonished when we 

 hear of some one planting two or three or more hundred acres of apple 

 or peach orchards. The man now seems to go into it as a sort of business 

 just as any other business man goes into his business. 



This matter of "orcharding" has also become a favorite and sure plan 

 for the iuA' estment of a few hundred or thousand dollars for safe keeping 

 and sure returns. 



No person can make a mistake in purchasing the cheap lands in 

 Missouri all along our creeks, streams or ri\ers, where they are now mostly 

 covered with a forest growth. Take the.se lands and chop, clear, burn 

 off the brush or timber and plant to orchard trees. No person need fear 

 that the cheap lands of Missouri will ever be any less in price than at this 

 very time. Careful selection of some of these lands for future orchards 

 and prepared in the proper manner for orchard growing will bring their 

 owners two, three, five times the money spent on them if it be done in a 

 legitimate manner and planted with the proper varieties. These cheap 

 lands will be worth in a few years threefold the purchase price, and if 

 planted in orchards will pay a wonderfully big per cent on the invest- 

 ment. 



