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Show f HORTICULTURE f This Department is Edited by Prof. R. S. Northrop, A. C. U. BIG PROFITS. An exchange tells of a Hood River, (Oregon) man who secured 3000 cases of strawberries off of twelve acres of ground the last season for which he received an average of $3 a case. It was necessary to use great care in grading and packing the fruit to receive re-ceive such large returns, but it certainly cer-tainly paid to do so. Growers arc getting more businesslike every year in handling their crops and they arc making money by doing so, too. APPLE SHIPMENTS FROM UTAH. Shipments of Utah apples began last week. It is estimated! that about seventy-five carloads will" be shipped from Ogdcn.and vicinity. And this only the second season in which Utah apples have been shipped in any great amounts outside of the state. Nearly four hundred cars of .peaches, pears, plums, apricots and early apples have already been shipped over the Hiarri-man Hiarri-man lines to the cast from that station sta-tion this fall, besides what went over the Denver 8; Rio Grande system, and that was no small amount. WHICH PAS BEST, LARGE OR SMALL ORCHARDS? My experience is that on an average, aver-age, the small orchard, vineyard or berry field pays better proportionately than large plantations. It is the finest quality of fruit which pays the largest profit. It is much easier Jor the average aver-age man to highly enrichijiis small orchard or plantation and to give the plants, trees and vines the bes op portunity to produce fine fruit, than it would be were he cultivating and growing them on large plantations. In order to succeed with the 100-acre apple orchard, peach orchard or vineyard vine-yard it requires considerable capital, if the soil is to be properly enriched and cultivated anl the .proper attention given. Greater business ability is also necessary in selling the products of a large plantation. The possibilities pf a few acres devoted to apples, peaches, pears, plums, cherries, quinces or to grapes or other small fruits 'are great. We have published accounts of subscribers of Green's Fruit Grower and others who have B received from a single peach tree in H one season $2& This money has B been secured not only by making the B soil exceedingly rich but in careful B attention to the tree in every other B way, and in the nihility to secure fancy B prices for the fruit. If this man had M larger orchards he could not secure M such high prices, nor such large yields m per tree. Green's Fruit Grower.. Jm B TOMATOES AND THEIR EF- W' FECT ON THE SOIL. 1 The Maryland Experiment Station J has issued a bulletin (No. 113) on 1 "Tomato Investigations," in which the following is said as regards the to- m mato and its effect upon the soil: "The tomato is not a specially ex- 1 hausting crop. Tomatoes do not re- I move as much plant food from soils I as most farm crops at the usual rates . j of product per acre. The refuse from an acre of tomatoes contains, .more "j fertilizing material than similar re- 1 mains of most other crops. ThTVincs 1 and roots of tomatoes arc very rich ' viffl, in potash. The residue of the tomato &M crop should. Ibc evenly spread and T t plowed under. As regards economy i of soil fertility, the tomato crop is a desirable one to raise." This report agrees with the experi- I -encc of practical growers, who have M found that tomatoes arc onc of the H very best crops to grow in a young B orchard, where a market can be found for the crop. If canning factories are at hand, or shipping facilities are pro- j?f vided and a good market can be reached, perhaps no better crop can be grown air jng young trees than tomatoes. |
