THE UNIVERSAL APPLE
The latest estimate places the total number of apple trees of bearing age in the United States at something over 200 millions (says “Country Life in America”). This is nearly three trees to every person. These trees yield more than 175,000,000 bushels, Not all these apples are consumed at home, for in years of full crop more than three million bushels go abroad. Yet tho apples kept at home are more than two bushels for every adult and •child. We are a nation of apple-eaters. This fact may not be to our credit, however, when we remember that a good part of all these apples are Ben Davis and other kinds that a refined and cultivated taste would not choose for its dessert. Yet probablv half our people never raise an apple, and of the holf who do raise them but a small percentage grows for market, and of those who grow for market only a part make a profit from the business. There is money in apple-growing.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXV, Issue 5008, 4 July 1903, Page 2 (Supplement)
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171THE UNIVERSAL APPLE New Zealand Times, Volume LXXV, Issue 5008, 4 July 1903, Page 2 (Supplement)
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