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fruits. In tlie gas belt, gas engines are used for pumping and the water is 
conveyed through tile. 
10. Statistics— No figures are at hand giving the areas devoted to orchards. 
In the southern portion of the State there are orchards which range from 
25,000 to 40,000 trees. The number of bearing trees of all kinds is given by 
the last report of the Bureau of Statistics as 9,752,000. Acres devoted to 
small fruits, 35,221. Value of fruit and fruit products sold, $647,510.00. 
IOWA. 
BY EUGENE SECOR, FOREST CITY, CHAIRMAN. 
While dowa is not especially noted as a fruit State it is fairly well adapted 
to horticulture. The southwest quarter of the State seems particularly well 
Adapted to most of the fruits grown in the North, both by reason of its cli- 
matic conditions, and its loess formation. Its elevation averages seven to 
nine hundred feet. Some large orchards have been planted in this section. 
A good many apples are exported from this corner of Iowa in fruitful years. 
The varieties of most value as shown from past experience are: Ben 
Davis**, Jonathan**, Ralls Genet**, Grimes**, Fameuse**, Oldenburg**, 
Wealthy**, Red June**, Winesap**, Lowell**. 
Cherries — Early Richmond, English Morello, Dyehouse, Ostheim, Mont- 
morency. 
Plums — De Soto, Wyant, Hawkeye. 
Grapes — Concord, Worden, Moore Early. 
The climatic conditions of the south half of the State do not greatly differ, 
but the conditions are more favorable to fruit growing on the Missouri slope. 
The State differs so greatly in latitude, altitude and geological formation 
that fruits need to be adapted to the varied conditions. The North half of 
the State requires especially hardy varieties. No peaches are grown in this 
section but plums are quite at home, that is, the Americanas. 
Of apples in the section just referred to, the favorites with planters are 
Oldenburg**, Wealthy**, Yellow Transparent**, Longfield**, Whitney**, 
Hibernal**, Haas**, Plumb Cider**. 
One of our esteemed citizens and eminent horticulturists has originated two 
varieties which are worthy of mention. One is Patten Greening, an apple 
resembling Rhode Island Greening in size and color but not so good for 
dessert. The originator claims, however, that it is the most profitable apple 
for evaporating ever produced; very hardy, good bearer, season— Fall. The 
other is Patten Fameuse, which is admired by some of our most discriminat- 
ing horticulturists. Said to be more hardy than its parent (Fameuse); fruit 
large, finely colored, striped with red, constant and heavy bearer, hangs 
well to the tree, agreeable in flavor and bears young. Season, Fall. These 
two are being tried extensively in the extreme North. 
The Russians also have many friends where the hardiness is essential. 
But the tendency to blight among the latter, added to a tendency to drop 
prematurely, to ripen too early in the season and low quality have stimulated 
the effort to produce American seedlings adapted to our especial environ- 
ments and improving tastes. 
