TOMORROW'S ORCHARD 
Figures given on page 2o sliow trends 
in apple orchard planting and acreage 
up to 1930. What has happened since 
is now history. We have all seen the 
toll that drouth, heat and cold have 
taken in our older orchards. It is a 
common prediction that over 50 pei 
cent (many say 75 per cent) of the 
apple trees in the central, western and 
northern Minnesota that were beaiing 
in 1930 will be “out of the picture” in 
another four or five years. New plant¬ 
ings have been few. 
Fortunate in one way is this “weed¬ 
ing” process of nature, as most of the 
older orchards were comprised largely 
of rather inferior and undesirable va¬ 
rieties. Fortunate, too, is the planter of 
today, for he has available varieties so 
vastly superior to most of the older 
sorts that they have changed the whole 
outlook for orcharding in the middle- 
west. 
The man who gives a thought to To¬ 
morrow’s Orchard, and then acts, will 
be planting an investment that will be 
a constantly increasing source of satis¬ 
faction and income for years to come. 
—THINK IT OVER— 
