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Why a Banker Planted Apples 



A leading luagazuic icUs aboai a Cleveland banker, who saw at hii 

 grocery some Apples that caught his fancy. He priced them. They were 

 fifty cents per dozen. He got to thinking of apples and eggs and potatoes 

 and meat — where each came from and how much each cost him. That 

 winter, as he sat by his grate fire, he decided that growing Apples was 

 worth his, a banker's, attention. The next spring he bought fifteen acres, 

 and planted it in fruit. Xow he spends his evenings dreaming of his 

 future home, and reflecting on a fact his fruit-growing study has shown 

 him. For he found university graduates, who formerly went into trades 

 or professions or business, now building bungalow homes on fruit farms, 

 and raising hardy, juicy, handsome, flawless fruit that is shipped all o\er 

 the world. 



If a banker can buy land, — leave his successful and cumfortable busi- 

 ness — to go and raise Apples, how quick the farmer who has land should 

 see his chance and start an orchard. Our own experience as successful 

 orchardists proves that fruit-growing offers the same opportunities and 

 cash returns in the East as it does in the West, when done properly. We 

 have o\er two hundred thousand bearing trees, in all of our orchards 

 together, so we know what we are talking about when we say that the 

 average Eastern farmer can make Apples the biggest opportunity for 

 making money that he can find. 



Varieties of Apples that Pay 



Grimes' Golden, Jonathan, Stayman's Winesap, Mammoth Black Twig, Rome 

 Beauty, Spitzenburg, Winesap, Wagner, Winter Banana, Rhode Island Greening, 

 Northwestern Greening, Mcintosh Red, King, Albermarle Pippin, York Imperial, 

 Yellow Transparent and Baldwin. 



These varieties have been the most successful east of the Alleghany Mountains. 

 They have made money, they are making money now, and they will make money 

 for their planters in the East during the next hundred years to come. Grimes' Golden, 

 Stayman's Winesap, Jonathan, Winter Banana, are of the highest quality, and their 

 keeping qualities are fine. The trees bear hea\y crops nearly every year, and thrive 

 in almost all locations. 



Ben Davis, Gano, and Apples of similar type are even of wider adaptability. They 

 will yield a heavy crop every year. But the fruit is of very poor quality. Spy is a rank 

 grower and Stark is even more so. The old \\'inesap is coming into favor again for 

 the Valley of Virginia and Shenandoah \'alley. Baldwin is a good, old reliable kind 

 which Eastern growers used to consider their best, but there are three or four later 

 varieties, such as Stayman's Winesap, Grimes' Golden and Rome Beauty, which 

 would be better as the main standbv in an orchard. 



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Three out of everj- four (arms in the East 

 ought to have this kind of landscape. Photo 

 from West Virginia orchard. 



Orchards Less Trouble than Grain or Stock 



At Locust Hill Farm, in Ontario county, X. Y., there is almost a hundred acres in Apples. Since 1875 the prices received 

 ranged from 80 cents to S3 per barrel, while the average price in the orchard for this period is a little over Sz per barrel. 

 Cultivation or mulching, spraying, correct grading and careful packing are the points which insure high prices. Every year 

 more American Apples are sent to Europe, and the prices received for the fruit over there are enough above American prices 

 to well justify the shipping. Less Apples are grown in the United States every year. The 1909 crop was three million 



barrels less than the 1908 crop. The 1910 crop was two million below the 

 1909. Do Apples pay? \\'ell it looks like it! Less trouble, more money! 



Every Family Needs 25 Bushels a Year 



As for home orchards — look at this. Cjood Apple trees cost, say 35 

 cents each or S3 per dozen. If trees are wanted to yield fruit to cat at 

 home, the pleasure of growing them will pay for the cost. At five years 

 old each tree will bear a peck, at seven years old a bushel, with right care. 

 This bushel will be worth at least Si in the market and five times that 

 much if used at home. The trees can be so placed that thev vv ill add as 

 much to the appearance of the home as any ornarQental. W hy don't you 

 fit up your home grounds with trees this spring? 



PRICES 



Price* of Two-year Apple Trees 



Each 10 100 i.oco 



Extra, 6 to 7 ft. $0 40 $3 50 $30 00 $250 00 

 Extra, 5 to 6 ft. .. 35 3 00 25 00 200 00 

 First-class mcd. 



4 to 5 ft 30 



3 to 4 ft 25 



2 to 3 ft 16 



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20 



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150 00 



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125 00 



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100 00 



Price* of One-year Apple Tree* 



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5 to 6 ft $0 35 $3 00 $25 00 $200 00 



4 to 5 ft 30 



3 to 4 ft 25 



2 to 3 ft 16 



2 50 



20 00 



150 00 



2 00 



15 00 



125 00 



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12 00 



100 00 



A York Imperial tree bowed down with fruit in 1910. 



^snprial Offpr 5° trees for a home orchard, our selection of varieties to ripen 

 ■jpeciai wrier, summer, fall and winter, some for all purposes — clean, per- 

 fect, straight, Harrison trees that are ready to head as you want them, by best 

 methods, value $10, our price till April 15, $7-So. prepaid. 



