Show APPLE CULTURE the bolso statesman tells ot an apple orchard of 64 acres near that place which 13 just beginning to bear and from which a car load of fruit yielded the owner delivered on board the cars the writer estimates that were tho entire number of trees bearing the orchard would have yielded a revenue of this year apples are a staple article and one of the most profet able of fruits to raise 1 of a good variety and of superior quality the qualifying statement as to quality may be applied to all fruits and to every product of the farm but especially Is it true of apples the tasteless fruit is less palatable than a turnip and when the core Is wormy it Is wholly unfit tor hutaff use but the plump sweet or even tart juicy sound apple is healthful palatable delightful and it these qualities are superior as apples raised in this section can be made the demand is almost unlimited when once they become known to the trade and the price is greatly in the making of the producer perhaps in no other branch of horticulture is the necessity of careful attention to tree life and the avoidance of insect pests so clearly illustrated as in apple culture for the fruit seems to respond to every moment of care and the product Is either a marketable article at a good price or a drug at any price just in the degree that attention and intelligent labor la applied |