| Show SOME FACTS ABOUT FRUIT I II In Harpers is an article on Fruit Growing in America by Mr Theodore Dreiser and some of hisstatements are most interesting He says in 1811 only half a barrel of raisins could be found in New York city to make plum puddings pud-dings for celebrating the treaty of peace Today California alone ships more than 300000000 pounds of raisins annually The strawberries grown and used in the United States amount to 580000000 a year Georgia Alabama Mississippi Texas and Tennessee have become great fruit States In Georgia the fruit crop is worth more than the cotton crop There is one man at lIar haihllle who Individually controls 120000 trees one combination of owners that controls COOOOO trees and around that town are 700000 peach trees In full bearing but the writer says the industry is I but in I its infancy Delaware Connecticut each produces 000000 baskets of peaches annually Maryland supplies about the same amount and Michigan surpasses eIther one One Michigan peach farmer has orchards that yield 80000 a year I In 1S9C a few crates of Rocky Ford melons were shipped from Colo j rado today 23000 acres covering nine J teen States arc devoted to the raising of Rocky Ford melons Mr Dreiser estimates the fruit trade of the United States at 1000000000 annually an-nually The foregoing ought to supply a hint to some people in this region who have I a little money and who love horticulture horticul-ture With the completion of the road to Los Angeles a great deal of fruit will come over it from southern California Cali-fornia But If any one knows the route It will take and can get near where the line will run n few acres of land that can be watered and plant It this coming spring to peaches and apples In three years he will have returns In four years he will have large returns I and he wjll be able to outsell any fruit that California cansend CUore he will be able to ship his apples to Los Angeles I An-geles and they will bring him four times the prices that any California apples I ap-ples will bring for though he climate of I southern California Is favorable JO I orange lemons dud especially J grapes the apples grown there are poor things and the peachesarc not nearly so lino as those grown l where the heavy frost touches the trees and soil in winter Again three acres of Utah 01 Nevada celery will when the road shall be completed com-pleted be a little fortune to the owner l I or course the tableland1 Vpal6r has no p rival and there oUght to iJela 1 jjreai I market for that beautiful fruit with Ui roads completion There will be a r 8 j I I grand fruit reciprocity between Utah I I and southern California by and by |
