Stark Bro’s Are the Largest Nurseries in the World—Over 4000 Acres 
Golden Delicious 
Makes You Dollars 
Where Any Other Apple 
Makes You Dimes!” 
—Garland J. Hopkins. 
G. Hopkins in young Stark Golden Delicious orchard in VIRGINIA 
bearing 10,000 bu. 
“T WENT down in Vir- 
JL ginia in 1911 and paid 
$23,240.00 for this land — 
and, after planting it to 
Stark Trees, especially 
Golden Delicious, cleaned 
everything up in 6 years 
off my orchard profits. Off 
this 753/2 acres — about 60 
acres in orchard — I made 
16 per cent net profit per 
year on the average, in 
addition to supporting my 
family. 
“To show you how 
Golden Delicious has per¬ 
formed for me. Last year (the year 
of the terrible drouth) most of my va¬ 
rieties failed to set any crop. BUT—my 
600 Golden Delicious 9 yrs. old and my 
600 Golden Delicious 6 yrs. old BORE 
10,000 BUSHELS. Many of my young 
Golden Delicious Trees yielded 18 to 20 
bushels each. That one year’s crop (in 
a very bad year for most varieties) alone 
paid for my orchard! That’s why I say 
Golden Delicious will make a dollar for 
every grower who plants it for every dime 
he will ever get from a tree of any other 
variety of apple!” says Garland J. Hopkins. 
J. O. Staats, Vermillion Co., INDI- 
ANA, in 5-yr.-old Golden Delicious 
orchard, loaded with fruit. 
“Will Make $50 An 
Acre Land Worth 
$ 1 , 000 . 00 !” 
J. O. Staats, Vermillion Co.t 
Indiana: “My 250 Stark Golden 
Delicious bought from you 5 
years ago loaded this year — 
many bearing 5 bu. each. I can 
take $50 an acre land, plant it to 
Golden Delicious and in 10 years 
it will be worth $1,000.00 an 
acre!” (See photo above.) 
$2.00 More Per Bushel 
Than Rome Beauties 
W. D. Giesler, Washington, reports:— 
“Apple growers who will be making 
big money 10 years from now will be 
those who plant Golden Delicious, 
Starking and Stark’s Red Delicious. 
"I received $3.97 per bu. average for my Stark 
Golden Delicious apples. $2.00 bu. above Rome 
and Grimes Golden.” 
Stark’s Golden Delicious Orchard of Spencer Waldron, Calhoun C o., Illinois—began bearing at 4 years and had BIG PROFIT CROPS every year. 
Golden Delicious Makes Rough Hill Land Worth $1,000 an Acre! 
The Story of SPENCER WALDRON, 
Orchardist, Calhoun Co., Illinois reads like 
a romance. 
About a generation ago, a young man 
trudged into the hills of Calhoun County, 
with a mere $40 in his pocket—and an 
ambition in his heart. 
He got a job the day he arrived. And, as 
he worked, he looked about him. He saw 
that the only farmers in that hilly country 
making money raised apples. He noticed, 
too, that those who made the MOST money, 
brought the BEST apples to market. 
“So,” he said to us, “while I had early 
made up my mind to own an orchard some 
day, I also said to myself that I would grow 
only the BEST varieties of apples. 
“I went into the orchard business because 
I considered it ABSOLUTELY SAFE—I 
KNOW that if you pick good land, plant 
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GOOD trees and give them good care, 
THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO WAY 
YOU CAN FAIL—in the long run. 
“Stark Bro’s were just introducing Stark’s 
Golden Delicious apple the year I bought 
my first land—and they strongly advised 
my planting a lot of them—although some 
of my neighbors were mighty dubious about 
any new variety. 
“I followed Stark Bro’s advice and planted 
my first orchard largely to Stark’s Golden 
Delicious, Stark Red Delicious, Jonathan, 
Double-Life Grimes Golden and Willow 
Twig apples. Later on, when Stark Bro’s 
introduced Starking, the “Double-Red” 
Delicious, I planted a lot of that variety, 
too. Those six HIGH-QUALITY APPLES 
and a moderate quantity of the Stark Early 
Elberta and J. H. Hale Peach trees today 
make up my 250-acre orchards. 
“Those Golden Delicious began bearing 
very young and have borne fine crops of 
HIGHEST MARKET PRICED APPLES 
every year ever since. In many years, like 
1929, when other varieties were killed by 
frost, my Stark’s Golden Delicious bore 
tremendous crops—9-year-old trees bearing 
10 bushels each, on the average. 
BECAUSE I PLANTED SUCH A 
LARGE NUMBER OF STARK’S 
GOLDEN DELICIOUS in my very first 
orchard, I began to pick REAL MONEY 
CROPS starting the fourth year.” 
At this time, Mr. Waldron’s trees range 
from 2 to 12 years old—only half of them 
old enough to bear—but his orchard that is 
bearing prompts him to conservatively 
state that he will NET 20 PER CENT 
PER YE \R ON $1,000 PER ACRE 
valuation as all the trees come into bearing. 
