Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 272, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1910 — MADE $433 FROM 20 CENTS [ARTICLE]

MADE $433 FROM 20 CENTS

Peach Trees Planted by Pennsylvania Man in Idle Moment Prove Big Bonanza. Siegersville, Pa.—An idle moment and 20 cents have just brought SIOO to the pockets of Oscar Wotring, superintendent of the Lehigh Portland Cement company. Several years ago he planted 20 peach trees in his front yard at a cost of a cent each. He wanted to see whether, if they were sprayed, they would die as all the peach orchards of the neighborhood then were under the ravages of the San Jose scale. The trees this year bore their second big crop. Wotring picked 284 baskets of choice fruit, which he has sold at an average of $1.06 a basket, or a total of $293.16. Last year, when the peaches were scarce and netted more than double this year’s prices. Wotring got $l4O for his crop, and the man who bought them picked 222 basket.