| Show COOPERATIVE ORCHARDS COOPERT I Tho EfflnRham Apple Orchard com I county Ill was or tinny of Efflngham Il ganized by William Dyke secretary ana manager for the purpose of buying land planting orchards and dealing in the products pro-ducts thereof It consists ot 18 persons who lct paid 8 per cent down on their stock subscription and pay 50c per share per month afterwards The company was organized January 802 and now has 120 acres in orchard principally apple Japan plum and peach with a few acres lot V Ohio raspberry and gooseberry tOj the trees The original owners yet hplJ all the stock there has never been bone b-one transfer and that from one stockholder stock-holder to another of a portion of hIS original holding For next springs planting 5 acres are already sprngs Bach eleventh row north and south is to be planted with Kieffer and Garber pears Mr D has had experience in the canning business and Is now a director in the Effinsham Canning company He also has a home place of over 80 acres aso which he grows small fruits and so far has never had enough to supply the home market especially of strawberries He also grows raspberries gooseberries currants plums grapes blackberries quinces cherries peaches pears early apples I Quantities are taken by customers at Utff I door and many cases are taken 2 and 20 miles Into the country by farmers who fruit than to think its cheaper to buy fuit tan raise I The success attained here shows the advantages of cooperation not only in planting orchards but in canning factories plantng orehard tories evaporators and other such kindred kin-dred interests as should naturally follow orchard planting Here is an example worthy of emultlon and if followed and well managed will prove of profit and advantage to every community for more so than cooperative stores When a few farmers undertake to run n store they perhaps dont know as much about I a they do about farming and fruit grow inc therefore unless they have a good manager they should let cooperative store keeping alone But in cooperative fruit growing Jammaking canning evaporating etc they have n business which every farmer can learn how to manage and once begun it will grow aur gow prlalngly i will make n market for thefW fruit and n hood profit on their man p factured product i r t |
