Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1919 — LETTER FROM JEROME ANDRUS [ARTICLE]

LETTER FROM JEROME ANDRUS

Says Michigan Apple Crop Has Been Gathered Up By the Dealers. In. a private letter to the writer a few days ago, Jerome G. Andrus of near Shelby, Mich., but a former resident of Walker township—we had written Mr. Andrus about getting a few barrels of apples from him—says, among other things: “I am sorry to say that every orchard is sold out except for home use. The buyers have been thick this fall. I have sold all my apples at $2.50 per cwt.; some sold for 3 cents per pound. Plums sold for from $2 to $3 per bushel, and peaches were contracted at $1.25 per? bushel, orchard run. Everything has been picked up. “I have oneX"nelghbor who will have $3,000 worth of apples. Those

that have fruit this year will get lots of money. The canning factories paid 11 cento per pound for cherries. “My wheat made 16 bushels per acre; very good considering the dry weather. It Is very hard to get help here and some don’t want to work. "I am not feeling very well at present. I got caught in the ensilage cutter and it tore all my clothes off but my panto and skinned me up quite badly. My side hurts me quite badly yet. It takes lots of sand to attack an ensilage cutter. I guess If I hadn’t been a Democrat it would have killed me. "Potatoes are very poor, it having been too dry for them. It is raining a little today and if frost should hold off it might help the late potatoes a little. Corn is good but oats were poor and the dry weather cut the hay crop very short.”