Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-01-11 | Page 2 | A Man Who is Making a Fortune

A Mara Who Is Making a Fortune In the current issue of Farm and Fireside, the national farm paper published pub-lished at Springfield, Ohio, appears ay ran a grocery store but is now inakm, a fortune on apples. Following is aj extract from the store of his achievement: achieve-ment: '"Sixteen thousand bushels of apples have been harvested and sold at an average price ot SO cents the bushel trom an 18-acre orchard owned and operated by G F. Beavers of Ralston, Nebraska, during tho last three years. The average gross receipts have aer-aged aer-aged moie than $4,200 the year. "Three thousand dollars was invested invest-ed seven years ago in tho apple orchard or-chard by Mr. Beavers, the a South Omaha groceryman. The orchard Is six miles from town. "Mr. Beavers had been selling a great many apples through his store, and his object in purchasing the or- chard was to eliminate one middleman's middle-man's pi of it. " 'There is no secret about niv modest mo-dest success's says Mr. Beavers. 'I found out as a grocer that a ladge portion por-tion of the apples I was able to buy were poor specimens, and that the really good ones met with a readv sale. The certainty of good prices in a market that was never oversupphed with good apples led me to abandon the store for the fruit farm. In those four years of running a store and an orchard I learned much about apple-growing apple-growing that has paid me exceedingly well. "'The most important thing was spraying. By diligent purning, cultivation, cultiva-tion, and spraying I have been able to secure gross returns the acre in excess of tho original cost to me.' "