Show Intensive Farming on the Pacific Coast i Is 18 claimed hat seven n acres of ot apple appleI lIT I I trees tree recently r sold In the tho of ot IB MI Washington nt ot an nn acre nere In Ia the tame come vicinity were other oilier small fruit where wh ro the land Will was Ji just t ns as highly valued The returns from these small email fruit farms where Intensive cultivation IH Is practiced are nrc said to run ruin up to thousands thou of ot dollars per por annum In Delaware there lucre Is n a single apple said to bring Us its Il owner orner u year When husbandry hu reaches j such lIuch figures there the must lie Ito 10 of ot u a high order behind the prunIng knife and ond cultivator A It Is 18 a noticeable that tho the apple opple tr tree o J and an not tho the newfangled led or semitropical fruits ru II II appears to be the key le to this unusual wealth In horticulture hortIculture ture In fact no single ln lo crop U lit as volt valuable able alile ns os tho the apple The Tho demand Is 19 un failing and ond where close clono Intensive yahoo Ls Li t made mado tho lie returns return are arc sold paid E ld to be bo more mom certain than from any other form IorIO of ot crops Chickens and pigs arc oro raised between the apple trees tr and ond with the th five seven en acre ocre farms the great greot hulk bulk of ot the be labor can be dote by lIy tho owner his hla wife and children A There Is la sold said to bo ho no DO room morn healthy Mo Uto that of ot the Intensive farmer I and ond the hours honn are oro short nod ond tho the work 1 1 very cry light apple trees tr when transplanted from rota the nursery to I the apple farms will viii bear benr be r some Bome fruit the tho third 1 year Car and ond five boxes of ot fine fruit 1 can cnn ho obtained tho ho sixth year t After Atler this thin the tho trees respond annually i with plenty plent of ot fine fino fruit which with modern methods method of ot transmitting trait fruit In II refrigerator cars permits the apples to tobo tobe ii bo be forwarded c to great cities where ro ro re tl prices rI can coa bo ho obtained al I I y r j J 4 T op r 0 |