Show APPLES BEST OF FRUIT In Jn an accounting just published and said to cover the tho last day of last June the number of apple trees in tho the United Unit Unit- cd ed States is placed at Miss Missouri Mis Mis- s u ri lea leads s thi list of states and territories terri tern t tories with trees while New NewYork NewYork NewYork York is second with It happens happens hap hap- pens that these e except in the case enso of Now No York are arc the tho ft figures ures given i en in tho the census report for 1900 1000 In tho the ten years be beginning with 1890 tho increase in tho the number of trees in in tho the country I was over SO Ei Eight years of another decade have now passed That I tho the count remains unchanged SiD sInce sinco co that tremendous gain of 99 oa must be regarded re mc- I as somewhat amazing amazing if n-if n if it is isa isa a fact I. I However Howo a a. mere reckoning of trees trees' is misleading as a a. means of comparing I states shares in tho apple rais raising nr in indus indus- us- us I tr- tr try New Yorks York's orchards produced over or bushels in IS Pennsylvania Penn sylvania was waR as a 1 close second and Ohio was third with moro snore than I bushels Missouri Missouri's s 's nearly 0 bushels placed her ninth on the list The a average O yield in New York according I Ito to a state fruit growers growers' association report re rc port of 1902 1002 is about three and ono ono- I half bushels a a. tree which ought for 15 IG- trees to bring up a total of over I 5 b bushels I There Thoro is quality also to bo be consid consid- ered Missouri offers tho the tasteless Ben BenDavis BenDavis Davis apple wh which ch finds ready and heavy salo sale oven o on tho the seaboard seaboard sea sea- board because of its coloring Western No New York produces tho the Northern Spy in its highest quality and tho the Northern Northera North North- ern era Spy is undoubtedly the tho best best- bestall all nIl round apple over oyer wet b by tho rain ruin and warmed by tho the sun New New York World i |