Stark Bro*s Are the OLDEST Nurseries in America — 120 Years Old 
Golden Delicious 
The Golden Apple 
That Has Amazed the World! 
$5,583.00 From 2 Acres 
-—only 130 Young Golden Delicious Trees in Amer¬ 
ican Fruit Growers Orchards (See story at right). 
T he American Fruit Growers, 
Inc., are the Largest Orchard- 
ists in the world (headquarters— 
Pittsburgh, Penn.).TheirWenatchee 
Regional Supervisor, Mr. Earl 
Barnhill, reports a wonderful 
Stark’s Golden Delicious crop for 
last year:— 
"We harvested 1220 (Twelve 
Hundred and Twenty) packed 
bushel boxes of Stark’s Golden 
Delicious apples from 130 trees 
on less than 2 acres. 
“We sold this crop for $5,583.00 
(Five Thousand, Five Hundred 
and Eighty Three Dollars) f.o.b. 
cars—an average of $4.57 per 
bushel!” 
This gave them a net income of 
$42.95 per tree — or nearly $3,000.00 
(Three Thousand Dollars) per acre! 
Mr. Barnhill further states:— 
"We have closely observed the 
Stark’s Golden Delicious variety for 
the past 5 years. Stark’s Golden 
Delicious is — 
2 Yr. Olds Bore in 33 States 
Golden Delicious trees have amazed hor¬ 
ticulturists and orchardists by bearing when 
only 2 years old in practically all sections 
of the United States—in New York, Mis¬ 
souri, Arizona, West Virginia, Oklahoma, 
Mississippi, Texas, California, Iowa, Con¬ 
necticut, Arkansas, New Mexico, New Jer¬ 
sey, Ohio, Louisiana, Wisconsin, Idaho, 
Alabama, Oregon, Kansas, Maine, Utah, 
Maryland, New Hampshire, Washington, 
Indiana, Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, Penn¬ 
sylvania, Tennessee, Massachusetts and 
District of Columbia. 
Official records also prove that entire orchards 
of Golden Delicious trees often bear in the 3rd year— 
EVERY TREE yielding a good crop. 
3 Bloom Sets—Dodges Frost 
Golden Delicious bloom late and often 
actually have 3 different sets of blooms:— 
First, the ordinary fruit-spurbuds—next, 
terminal bloom buds—and, then, the lateral 
bloom buds. Even if frost gets one set, the 
others can produce a crop. That’s WHY 
Golden Delicious bears when frosts kill the 
crops on other varieties. 
F. A. Schell, noted Washington grower, 
says: 
^^BEARS When Apples Are 
Scarcest and Prices Highest^’ 
‘‘Escapes All Spring Frosts” 
The remarkable record of Golden Deli¬ 
cious bearing year after year everywhere, 
in the face of frosts and weather conditions 
that reduce or ruin the crops of other 
varieties, is simply amazing. 
Here are just a few of the enthusiastic 
reports that are pouring in on us from 
delighted growers:— 
“This Spring 3 heavy frosts killed all my 
other varieties except Golden Delicious. 
They brought me 50 per cent more than 
others,’’ declares G. C. Roberts, Columbi¬ 
ana, Co., OHIO. “My heavy crop of Golden 
Delicious will be the ONLY apples I’ll 
harvest this year. All others very light,” 
states Kalalanta Orchards, Macon Co., 
N. CAR. “My Golden Delicious were the 
ONLY trees producing a crop this year. 
They bring me 100% MORE MONEY 
than my other varieties,” states Zack 
Hodson, Shelby Co., ILL. 
“The Heaviest Bearing of All 
Commercial Varieties 
— even heavier tha.n Rome Beauty, Black 
Ben or Ben Davis. The trees are strong and 
healthy, apparently quite frost-resistant 
and they bear a commercial load of 
high quality fruit on one-year wood, 
being the only variety that does this. The 
Apples never get mealy. We are partic¬ 
ularly pleased with the size and quality 
of the fruit. This big crop of 1220 bu. off 
130 trees was 71-8/10 percent Extra Fancy. 
46-4/10 per cent of the apples ran 64 apples 
to the bushel — or larger size.” 
Wonderful HARDY Tree 
Disease Resistant—Vigorous 
Bears Young and Grows Fast at Same Time 
Golden Delicious trees are amazingly 
vigorous, fast growers, do not blight and are 
wonderfully disease resistant. They possess 
the abounding vitality that makes them 
bear young and grow fast at the same time. 
Shape is ideal for modified leader type—requires 
little pruning. Limbs very strong—do not break 
under tremendous loads of fruit. Bear tremendous 
crops EVERY YEAR. Apples ripen late, hang well 
and do not drop. Often bears at 2 years old. 
“We had 25 degrees when our Golden Delicious 
were in bloom and they set a crop in spite of it.’’ 
Little Orchards Make More Money than Big Farms 
Pays Better than Cattle 
Raising or Grain Growing 
Adolph Luksdorf, Lane Co., OREGON, 
bought 10 acres, planted Stark Delicious, 
Stayman Winesap and Grimes—sold it just 
coming into bearing for times amount 
he paid for it. He is now planning an orchard 
of 90 acres which he will plant to Stark 
Delicious (30 per cent), and Golden Deli¬ 
cious (30 per cent). He declares, “Orchard¬ 
ing pays better than either cattle raising or 
grain growing.” 
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More Profit in Apples 
Than in an Orange Grove 
Jas. Sharpe, former R. R. fireman and 
farmer, Morris Co., KANSAS, reports his 
leading Stark Tree varieties Stark Deli¬ 
cious, Jonathan, Grimes Golden and Wine- 
sap. He has sold about $15,000.00 worth of 
apples from 40 acres each year for 3 straight 
years—land bought for $150 an acre and 
now worth $500.00 per acre. He declares:— 
‘‘There is more profit in a well-cared- 
for apple orchard than in a Florida 
orange grove!” 
Pays 10 Times as Much 
as Corn or Cotton Growing 
Arthur H. Thompson, Lee Co., ARKAN¬ 
SAS, formerly in cotton and lumber business, 
hasbeen raising f rui t f or ten years. H is leading 
varieties are Stark Delicious, Stark King 
David, and Stayman Winesap. Also he has 
young Golden Delicious. Single Stark Deli¬ 
cious trees have yielded him 25 bushels in 
a year. He writes: “My orchard has paid 
me ten times more per acre than anything 
else, such as corn or cotton.” 
Genuine Golden Delicious Trees Obtainable ONLY from Stark Bro*s, Louisiana, Mo 
