OKLAHOMA FARMER, MARCH 15, 1911
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HORTICULTURE
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SIX KINDS OF FRUIT
WORTH RAISING
From Green's Fruit Grower.
Apple Raising at a Profit.
The following "apple" story appeared
" 1 in tiie "Rural New Yorker," Which we
assume many of our subscribers read
regularly. For those who missed it
and for those who do not talct the
above paper it seems worth while to
reprint ae an object lesson on what
can be done in fruit when one goes
at it in tha right manner:
We do not like to print "big
stories" of results in farming. They
usually do far more harm th;m good
by discouraging some who have ttied
hard to succeed and encouraging
others who think they can match the
record without labor and experience.
These latter are often l,3d to failure
by such reports. After tli's explan-
, ation we print the following, which we
I believe to be fully authentic.
Some time ago you asked for the
result from one acre of fruit. I will
send you the amoOnt rece'ved from
one acre of Alexander apples of 47
trees.
Receipts.
380 barrels at $• .....
27 barrels drops at
Drops sold loose  
202.45
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The Hramfr Co.,/'axton. Ilihiots
was harvested. I have no means of
knowing the number of quarts of fruit
gathered, for the reason that many
were used for canning purposes—more
than a bushel. Many were given away
and some were left for neighbors to
pick and besides we sold enough to
come to $6. Assuming that as many
more were used and given away, there
would have been realized from the tree
at least $12, and in the same propor-
tion, in an orchard of 108 trees tt\ere
would be realized almost $1,300. But
requires more or less sulphur in the
soil; the plaster of Paris is the cheap-
est way you can gat it.
The reason why you don't want to
apply animal manure largely to your
Kiapes is that it induces a rank,
coarse growth of wood and foliage,
which is unfavorable to the production
ot fruit. You want a fair, moderate
growth of wood and that is all. You
want a medium-sized wood. The cane
should be about the size of your little
linger, and it will bear larger bunches
and more of them than if it is three
times as large. You want to have the
canes well ripened also.
Stimulating the vine by an'mal ma-
nure makes it grow until late In the
fall and the wood will not ripen as
well. The fruit buds do not thorough-
ly develop until the wood is part ally
ripe. I think you can make a much
stronger fruit bud by moderate " than
by over manuring.—J. B. M., Conn.
Pear Culture
G. F. Comings said: "We ought
to enjoy this delictus fr.uit from Aug-
ust to February. There are thousands
TREES THAT GROW
Oar trees are the right kind, L.ad!ed
right and give the right results.
Get our catalogue and see that wi
have the best assorlmentin the South-
west.
Buy direct and save 50 p r ceat be-
sides getting the trees fresher than if
ord;red from an agent.
Fruit trees, shade trees, roses, ever-
greens, shrubs, plants, seeds, ctc.
Catalogue free. We pay the express.
lialcer Hros. Co.
Wortli. XejvnN
$1,544.00
67.K0
33.00
Gross amount received. . $1,646.50
Expenses.
413 barrels at $.35. $144.55
Picking at $.15, a bb| 57.90
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, Net amount received $1,414.05
This orchard of Alexander apple
trees lias been thoroughly cultivated
and manured, and cover crops used.
I should Mke to know if any sod-mulch
orchard could show as good return.—
Delos Tenny, Hilton. Y.
Most people in Western New York
know of Mr. Tenny and what he has
done on a 20-acre farm. The fact of
producing $1,646.50 gross on a s'njjle
acre of early apples leads us to won-
der what fruit growing is coining to.
And the "sod-mulchers" have their
eay too. A citizen of Syracuse tells
how day after day the wagon from
Mr. Hitehings' farm passes with about
$70 worth of apples aboard. Mr.
Hitehings tells us that his boy took
one load and brought back $108.50
received for it. For years we have
clnlnied that apple growing in the
eastern states would in time rank
among the most profitable enterprises
in which men can engage. And there
requires harder work, greater sk'll or
greater patience and real courage than
that of developing a high class fruit
farm. The business has no opening
for shirks and dreamers, but calls for
strong men who can endure.
Profit in Cherries.
Tt is cla'med that as much as $300
has been made from one acre of cher-
ries. There is probably but little doubt
regarding the profit of the cherry tree,
vhut the trouble arises in the labor re-
quired in picking. Upon one acre, with
the trees 20x20 feet apart, one hundred
and eight trees can be set, and it would
require only about a bushei from each
tree in ord£r to realize $300. Cherry
trees do not bear every year alike, and
- so, perhaps, it is not an easy matter to
Judge of the average income from an
orchard of an acre. The price realized
also depends upon the kind of cherry.
We had a tree of a variety known as
Siberian or Oxheart, from which a few
years ago an excellent crop of fruit
that was an exceptional year, and yet
shows what might be with success, a
market and fair prices.
While a wet soil is objectionable, it
is as necessary that there be a supply
of moisture as that there should be a
supply of fertilizing mater'al. One of
the experiment stations, in referring to
experiments and the fact that no re-
sults could be traced to the use of
fertilizers, says that it was due to the
fact that there was not enough water
at hand to enable the plants to use
the fertility that there was in the soil.
The want of suffeient watar In mid-
summer is evidently a hindrance to
the best effects that might be pro-
duced.
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Raspberry Culture.
Raspberries planted last spring are
now low trailing plants with six or
seven long slender branches five or six
feet long. The tips of these branches,
if buried last August, are iine, strong
rooted plants, and the firs work this
spring will be to cut these off about
half a foot long and dig the plants, if
they are to be sold or planted at once.
If to be shipped or kept only a week
they can be thrown promiscuously into
a barrel and covered with some wet
straw or marsh hay. If for any reason
the ground cannot be got ready until
planting can be done and this may be
done after the young growth is a foot
high. In this case the top should be
pinched and the plant handled with
great care. I take thirty or forty in a
market basket and set them about as
fast as dug. It is much better, how-
ever, to make arfrangemonts to plwit
black or tip rooting raspberries the
very first thing, and then the raspberry
patch can be cleaned up and trimmed
before grass and weeds get very much
of a start. Summer care consists in
keeping the plantation clean, in pinch-
ing back, and in picking and market-
ing the fruit. P nching consists of
nipping off the tender ends of the new
canes with the thumb nail or a jack
knife. I do this when the growth is
up to my hand as they swing to my
s'de, or about two feet high. They at-
tain this growth about the time we
market the first strawberries.
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Concerning Grapes.
Any land that is rich enough to boar
forty bushels of corn to the acre, )*
rich enough to prow grapes. As far as
my own course is concerned. T have
not used manure after plant ng I have
and ashes, and sometimes of bones and
used applications sometimes, of bone
potash salts, with occasional plaster of
Paris mixed w'th it, because the grape
of acres in this and adjoining counties
well adapted to pear culture that
might be doubled in value in five
years if set to pears. The ideal soil
for pears is a black sand with dry
sub-soil; next to this a clay loam; on
any good corn soil they can be grown
profitably. A northern slope is pre-
ferable to southern exposure. A clay
soil should be thoroughly plowpd and
drained where necessary, and will bear
much fort lizing—ashes and bone meal
being about the best thing to use"
He recommended that trees be set
eighteen feet apart each way, bi t t'ie
grower should be governed soihew'.at
by the variety of frillt and soil. Largo
holes should be dug for tho trees and
some surface soil pladfed at. the bot-
tom. For the first year or two it is
a good thing to grown corn in the peat-
orchard as the shade alTorde dtlie tree
will be beneficial. Currants are a de-
sirable fruit crop to grow between th«.
trees. It Is a good plan to wrap young
trees with building paper for the v In-
ter. Mr. Com ngs gave his views in
regard to pruning and desirable va-
rieties to plant, giving his preference
to the Buerre de Anjou. He uses bar-
rels and kegs for marketing the crop,
and packed the fruit in two grades.
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The Quince.
The qu'nce is a garden fruit prized
highly bj all good housewives, ft ts,
however, on most places shamefully
neglected. Almost any treatment seem1"
to be thought goo'd enough for a
quince tree, and yet it is capable o'
responding to good and kind culture
as much as any other fruit tree. Those
who have seen only the poor, miser-
able specimens of fruit which come
from starved, neglected trees about the
average home, know but little o*" the
noble fruit trees well cultivated are
capable of producing.
The quince adapts itself to a variety
of soils. Tt does fairly well in anv
good soil, that is not wet or dry sand.
In the mountains of the south If,
thrives extremely well, reaching the
size from five to five and one-half
inches ;n diameter, and the fruit be-
ing fair, smooth and beautiful. , A
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Fences cost almost nothing compared
with results obtained
A fariw of 160 acres fenced into five fields, as shown in the diagram, takes 1,040
rods o£ fence. At fairly reasonable prices the year's yield from this farm is:
Wheat  IG00.00
Oats  157.50
Hogs  400.00
Cattle   1000.00
Market value of year's crop 12157.50
Cost of complete fence $350
Or, in ten years, value of yield $21,575—
and the fence still good
What did the fence do? Besides enclosing the fields it facili ated crop
rotations and the feeding of stock. Without the fence the same profit could not
have been realised from the stock.
Fences cost almost nothing compared with results obtained.
American fence is made better than ever. It is a thoroughly galvanized square me? ti
fence of weight, strength and durability. Large wires are used and the whole fnlirio is
woven together with the American hinged joint (patented)—the most substantial and
flexible union possible. Both wires are positively locked and firmly held against side siip
and yet are free to act like a hin-je in yielding to pressure, returning quickly to iilacu
without bending or injuring the metal.
Haalare PStocks of American retire '.re carried in every place where
^calera S~<veijr Wllcrc farm supplies are sold. The iv-noels chipped to ' use points
In carload lots, thereby securlnsr the cheapest transportation, hi' 1 , ■ :> thus mmlo
enables it to be sold at the lowest pri.v ; Lor.k for the An.'ii " It?. and fret the
substantial advantages he is enaNed to of r. ■•.. i ther* tn serve tie: p .. ■ • i i perboa. offer
the variety ot selection and savo the buyer men •. in i.iany • ays
FRANK BAACKES, Vice Pr. >e and Genei Sr.le* Agent
American Ste;.-; >. "V\ ira Company
Chicago New York >:*<r San f i'mu Aic*
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