June, 1917 



GT. KANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



48ft 



One of the Concord vineyards owned by the Repp brothers. Notice the clean cultivation and 

 the wire trellis. 



flower-garden next lo the home of Albert 

 Repp; and in the background will be seen 

 an apple-orchard such as one may see all 

 over this 5000-acre tract of orchards. 



RAISING FRUIT RATHER THAN HELL. 



When the father, John Repp, was making 

 failure after failure in his fruit-growing 

 operations, no one, of course,, thought it 

 worth while to go into the same line of 

 business; but when he and his sons began 

 to show that those failures spelled success, 

 then everybody went into the business, in- 

 cluding some of the liquor people, who were 

 sore over the Repp boys' active fight against 

 the saloons; for they said to the boys, " You 

 cannot run against our business without 

 having us run against yours. We are go- 

 ing to buy up all the land around you, and 

 run opposition to you." 



"All right," said Charley. "I would 

 rather have you raise fruit than to raise 

 hell." 



WTien the dispensers of booze told him 

 they were going to put in a mammoth cold- 

 storage plant that would outrival his, and, 

 that they would make ice cheaper than he 

 could, Charley snapped back that he would 

 rather they would make ice than to make 

 bums. 



It seems the liquor men did buy up some 

 land, and put it into fruit, for they were 

 determined to run the Repp boys out of 

 business for their " meddlesome interfer- 

 ence." 



As we drove around with Charley in his 

 "big six" he pointed out one of those or- 

 chards that was financed and operated by 

 the whisky crowd, but it did not look as 

 thrifty and as fine by a long way as the 

 Repp orchards. " But," said Charley Repp, 

 " it looks to me since the war started as if 

 they will have to get out of the saloon busi- 

 ness and raise fruit, and I am glad of it. 

 I will help them all I can." 



That is genial Charley Repp all over. 



Albert Repp's flower-qrarden next to his residence. In the background is one of the numerous 

 apple-orchards in this 5000-acre tract of fruit-growing. 



