Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1891 — A Missouri Fruit Farm. [ARTICLE]

A Missouri Fruit Farm.

At Olden, Mo., there is a fruit farm of three thousand acres, which was started in the spring of 1884 by the planting of 16,000 peach trees. In the spring of 1885 some 3,000 apple trees, 12,000 poach trees, and ten acres of berries were planted. In the spring of 1886 ten acres of berries, 3,000 apple and 10,000 peach trees were planted. In 1887 five acres of berries, 1,000 pear, 4,000 apple and 5,000 peach trees were planted. In 1888

five acres of bentos, 5,000 apple en 5,000 poach trees were planted; and in the spring of 1880 ten acres of berries, 500 clierrv, 1.000 pear and 5,000 apple trees were planted. Tho total fruit-plant of the farm up to March 1, 1800, covered 700 acres, of which 300 acres were in peach trees, 300 ucressin apple trees und 100 acres in pear, plum und cherry trees, raspberries and blackberries. This year between 75,000 and 100.000 bushels of peaches have been picked. Tho entire crop was sold to the New York firm ot Wing Brothers for fifty cents a bushel. The peach crop this year will almost pay the original cost of the farm. —[lllustrated American.