
MORE FRUIT GROWERS 
DIVERSIFYING PRODUCTION 
“Today we find more apple growers diversifying in 
their production and raising peaches, plums, cherries, 
grapes and berries along with their apple crop. 
“As we find better varieties adapted to our growing 
conditions, this diversifying will continue and prob- 
ably increase during the next five years. The value of 
growing several fruits is obvious. There is less risk of 
having a complete failure each year, and over a period 
of years the grower will have a much more normal 
average income each year.” 
Paul H. Shepard, Director 
Missouri State Fruit Experiment Station 
Mountain Grove, Mo. 
Reliable Sources For Help 
And Information 
Here in Missouri, at Mountain Grove, the State main- 
tains and operates several hundred acres, under the able 
direction of Paul Shepard, planted in fruits of all kinds, 
apple, peach, plum, pear, cherry and berries. Their mis- 
sion is to prove quality, productiveness and adaptability of 
different varieties; to test effectiveness of different fer- 
ilizers, spray materials, methods of pruning and cultiva- 
tion, all with the aim of aiding producers of fruits to prof- 
itable production. Our State also provides a Horticultural 
Extension Service under the supervision of the Horticultural 
Department of the State University, directed by W. H. 
Martin, Columbia, Missouri. The same service is offered 
by many other states, and we recommend to our custom- 
ers to advise with the State Departments for competent, 
unbiased information regarding any problems that may con- 
front them. Local County Agents representing the United 
States Department of Agriculture are also always willing 
to help. 
No Difficulty in Marketing First Grades 
“There still is a very brisk demand for good peaches in 
this state, and when they are grown properly there is no 
difficulty in marketing all the first grades. Our main draw- 
back here is the gamble with the weather. However. the 
growers who have taken care of their trees have profited 
well from an average of three crops out of five. Some of 
the more fortunate growers have averaged four crops out of 
five, and they all say that there is a good possibility of in- 
creasing acreage.” 
Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College 
G. F. Gray 
Assistant Professor 
Dept. of Horticulture 
Plans On Setting Sixty Acres This Fall 
“Ags to the future for apple growers in Missouri, it is my 
opinion that now is a better time than ever before for 
growers to set more acreage. We plan on setting sixty acres 
this fall. We have one hundred fifty acres, five years old, 
which yielded a nice crop this year.” 
Pike Co. Producers by J. W. Cannon 
Clarksville, Mo. 

E. D. Martin’s Transparent Orchard, Gravette, Ark. 
In Mr. Martin’s orchard pictured above, 2,010 bushels were 
picked from 231 sixteen-year-old trees in the summer of 1941. 
Young Orchards Every Four or Five Years 
“If a person is in the fruit business it is just like any 
other line of business. He has to keep his plant up in good 
shape, and by that I mean a man who is depending on the 
fruit business for his living ought to have young orchards 
coming along every four or five years, putting out additional 
acreage and cutting down the older or unprofitable trees.” 
F. H. Simpson 
F. H. Simpson Company, Flora, Illinois 
Car lot distributers of apples. peaches, pears. 
Optimistic About Missouri- Arkansas 
Fruit Growing 
“TI am quite optimistic about the future in northwest 
Arkansas and southwest Missouri as a fruit growing region. 
We know what this region has done. With all the additional 
information and with the certainity that weather conditions 
will be more favorable in the future than they have in the 
immediate past, 1 see no reason why fruit growing should 
not again take its rightful place. I believe there will and 
should be this difference. Orchards should be planted in 
small units but more people will plant orchards. They will 
be better cared for and production and quality will be 
enhanced.”’ 
J. R. Cooper, Head Horticulture and Forestry 
University of Arkansas College of Agriculture 
Agricultural Experiment Stations 
Fayetteville, Arkansas. 
Must Look Ahead From Three to Ten Years 
“The apple, or fruit, if you please, has been the most out- 
standing industry in northwest Arkansas for many years. 
Production is getting lower every year on account of fewer 
mature trees. We are taking out our old orchards as fast as 
possible so as to get in shape to replant. One in the fruit 
tree business must look ahead frfom three to ten years. So 
we are planting as fast as we can.”’ 
Pitts Brothers, Lincoln, Arkansas. 
Sugar Hill Fruit Tarm 
Producers and Shipper of High grade 
Arkansas Apples with Ozark flavor. 

Bob Hailey’s Yellow Delicious Crop 1941 
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