Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 113, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1909 — Tom Walters Exhibits Some Fine Native Grown Fruit. [ARTICLE]

Tom Walters Exhibits Some Fine Native Grown Fruit.

Tom Walters, of Barkley township, has a fruit exhibit of no mean proportions and of very fine quality, and which show the possibilities of this country in that line. His display consists of early and late pears, clingstone peaches and Roman Stem, Baldwin, Russet and Greening apples, which are displayed in Joe Larsh’s drugstore window. They are all large, smooth and evidently just as fine as they look. Frank Hill also has a large apple on display there and Mel Griffin has a potato that weighs 1 pound and 9 ounces in the same window. These things are very interesting and offer a suggestion for coupling a number of agricultural exhibits and prizes with the next horse show. Most fruit in this country has a great deal to contend with. Tree trimming is carelessly done if done at all and very few orchard owners spray their trees, but if they did these things it is probable that many more and much better apples could be grown.