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DO APPLES PAY? 



rewarded the owner well for all costs, — P. B. Crandall, 

 Central New York. 



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No other crop pays as well in western New York as 

 apples, and a failure is not more frequent than that 

 of any other crop that affords a corresponding profit. 

 A fairly good crop in the counties of this State best 

 adapted to apples we think worth more than all the 

 grain crops of the same counties in the same year. — T. 

 G. Yeomans & Sons, IVesiei-n New York. 



The apple crop last year in western New York, owing 

 mainly to fungi, was an entire failure. Two others of 

 the past five years from the same cause were hardly bet- 

 ter. Notwithstanding this the apple crop paid me for 

 the average of the five years better than ordinary farm- 

 ing. With the certain return to "old fashioned sea- 

 sons " we shall have "old fashioned crops " and prob- 

 ably by reason of discoveries in fungicides, even better, 

 and increasing. With no increase in orcharding, and 

 increasing demands from growing cities and regions un- 

 favorable to apples, I consider the prospect for the en- 

 terprising and intelligent apple grower extremely favor- 

 able. --George H. Allen, U'eslem Nezu York. 



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Do apples pay ? Briefly speaking I would say, 

 "that depends " Taking, however, the entire "apple 

 belt " of the states, I feel confident that apple culture 

 pays. In southern Pennsylvania we have learned a 

 valuable lesson as to varieties, and by planting largely 

 York Imperial for winter use, we not only have a hardy 

 vigorous tree, a good bearer, and keeper, but a profitable 

 variety. Other states and localities are rapidly learn- 

 ing, if they have not already learned, the same lesson, 

 and while apples have on the whole been profitable in 

 the past, they will be even more so in the future. — E. 

 B. Engle, Soiitliern Pennsylvania . 



Are you growing a popular fruit of standard variety, 

 especially adapted to your locality, instead of twenty 

 varieties a few of each, which require time and money 

 to gather and store separately with little to recommend 

 them in quality, appearance or as keepers ? Do you 

 fertilize the orchard by the use of manure or commer- 

 mercial fertilizer or by running hogs or sheep on it, at 

 proper seasons ? Do you spray for canker worm, cod- 

 lin moth or scab ? Have you proper facilities for keep- 

 ing fruit ? Can you obtain new barrels at reasonable 

 prices ? 



If you can answer these questions affirmatively, 

 apple growing will pay in the long run, provided you 

 do not force the crop on a glutted market. — W. Gordon 

 Merrick, Central J'irgiiiia. 



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The cultivation of apples will pay, provided you select 

 the best varieties for table and market, adapted to the 

 soil and climate. High clay lands are preferable. 

 Plant thrifty young trees, one or not more than two 

 years from the bud. Cultivate the ground until they 



begin to bear, and even longer. Put leached ashes 

 about the trees, and fertilize broadcast over the ground 

 after they begin to bear freely. 



I had an orchard of some thirty acres at old Fort 

 Miami, seven miles above Toledo, and the year that I 

 sold it, the apple crop was worth nearly four thousand 

 dollars. In order to have apples pay you must select 

 the best kinds, know how to prune the trees, and take 

 the best of care of them. — J. Austin Scott, Southeast- 

 ern Michigan . 



Apples paid me when I began here years ago, but now 

 there are so many depredators to prey upon the fruit 

 that it is more expensive to raise. Nevertheless I think 

 that it pays to raise apples. — S. M. Pearsall, Western 

 Michigan. 



Do apples pay ? I must answer both no and yes. 

 No, as the masses treat their orchards ; yes, abundantly, 

 when given anything like the intelligent care that makes 

 any other farm crops pay. One of the greatest mistakes 

 is holding on to the starved old orchards too long, in- 

 stead of planting new. — J. N. Stearns, Southwestern 

 Michigan. 



I have gathered a good many statistics in Van Buren 

 and Allegan counties in the past ten years, or more, as 

 to apples consumed at home, sold, grown, evaporated, 

 manufactured into cider, jellies, jams, pickles, etc., etc. 

 From these statistics and observations over the state, I 

 am satisfied that no other fruit or product has brought 

 such large net returns for money invested and time 

 spent as the apple crop. — C. J. Monroe, Southwestern 

 Michigan. 



Do apples pay ? That depends on the locality and 

 the man behind the business. Speaking for the state of 

 Indiana, I can say. Yes. Along the Ohio river and on the 

 highlands many miles out from the river, apples are 

 profitably grown. In the hilly regions in the south- 

 western portion of the state, apples are a reliable and 

 profitable crop. In the northeastern part of the state, 

 m those counties containing many small lakes, apples 

 succeed as well as in western New York or Michigan, 

 and are more suitable and profitable than farm crops. 

 In the central and more level portions of the state 

 apples do not succeed so well. Yet I think with a pro- 

 per selection of varieties and the right kind of care, 

 apples may be profitably grown in central Indiana. — C. 

 M. HoBBS, Central Indiana. 



Apples pay in northern Illinois if proper conditions 

 are observed, but not so well as they did twenty years 

 ago when orchards were younger, insects less numerous, 

 canned, dried and southern fruits less plenty. To 

 make apples pay, the trees must be taken care of, man- 

 ured when bearing, insects kept in subjection, fruit 

 carefully handled and assorted and put up attractively. 



I venture to say that on many farms, the orchard has 



