Stark Bro*s Are the Largest Nurseries in the World—Over 4000 Acres 
—Garland J. Hopkins. 
G. Hopkins in young Stark Golden Delicious orchard in VIRGINIA 
bearing 10,000 bu. 
“T WENT down in Vir- 
i 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 75}/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.-oId Golden Delicious 
orchard, loaded with fruit. 
“Will Make $50 An 
Acre Land Worth 
$ 1 , 000 . 00 !” 
J. O. Staats, Vermillion Co., 
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!” (Sec photo above.) 
$2.OOMorePer Bushel 
Than Rome Beauties 
W. D. Gicsler, 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 $.1.97 per bu. average for my Stark 
Golden Delicious apples, $2.00 bu. above Rome 
and Grimes Golden.” 
‘‘Golden Delicious 
Makes You Dollars 
Where Any Other Apple 
Makes You Dimes!’* 
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! 
Apple and Peach Trees Make 
Rough Hill Land Worth 
$1,000.00 an Acre 
Spencer Waldron came to Calhoun Count>' 
with only $40.00 in his pocket, but a burning 
ambition in his heart. He saved his money to 
buy an orchard, because he soon learned 
that the men in Calhoun County who had 
the MOST money were fruit growers. 
“When I bought my first rough hillside 
land,” says Mr. Waldron, ‘T knew nothing about fruit 
growing—but when I got ready to plant I asked the 
advice of the fruit experts at Stark Bro’s Nurseries. I 
followed their advice and planted only high quality 
varieties -such as Golden Delicious, Starking, Double- 
Red Delicious, Jonathan, Delicious and Willow Twig 
apples and Stark Early Elberta and J. H. Hale Peach 
trees. These high quality varieties brought me top-of- 
the-market prices year after year and made my rough 
hillside land worth $1,000.00 an acre.” 
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Fourth Successive Profit Crop 
From 8-year old Trees 
“In 1935,’’ reports Rising Springs Or¬ 
chards, Pike County, Illinois, “our young 
Golden Delicious trees produced a good 
crop of big, smooth, high quality apples 
which brought us good prices. These trees began 
bearing when only 4 years old and have not missed a 
crop since. 
“In 1936, despite the coldest, most prolonged 
winter on record in our section, followed by late Spring 
frosts, causing other varieties in our orchards to fail, 
and the hottest summer with the most severe drouth 
in the memory of our oldest inhabitant, Golden De¬ 
licious again came through with a $6400.00 crop 
which we sold ri.ght at the orchards.” 
“Again in 1937. these same Golden Delicious trees 
were loaded with big, smooth, beautiful highest qual¬ 
ity apples which brought buyers to our orchards to 
pay highest prices for these high quality apples. 
“Now, again in 1938, we have an excellent crop 
of Golden Delicious which will make us big profits.” 
A Great Victory for 
Golden Delicious 
The great chain store organizations 
and independents throughout the country 
are bu\ ing great quantities and pushing 
GOLDEN DELICIOUS apples to their cus¬ 
tomers. Their customers are coming back for 
many repeat orders as Golden Delicious is 
an ideal all-purpose apple — best for eating out of 
hand, for making apple pie, for stewing, for apple 
sauce, for baked apples and for salads. 
Chain store executives report that their store 
managers and their customers are very enthusiastic 
about Golden Delicious. 
The selection of Golden Delicious as a “Push 
Variety” by the Chain Stores is a great victory for 
t Ids amazing apple and further assures its great future 
popularity and an immediate big increase in it.-i 
demand at good jiriccs thruout .\mcrica. 
