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PURDUE UNIVERSITY
Agricultural Experiment Station
Circular No. 30
LaFayette, Ind., October, 1911
AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION XIII
COMMERCIAL APPLE GROWING
The possibilities for success in commercial apple growing in Indiana are as great as those possessed by any other locality.
In the undeveloped apple lands of Indiana the state possesses an agricultural resource of immense potential value, of which advantage should be taken at an early date.
Notwithstanding the excellent opportunities for success in commercial apple growing, Indiana is not now raising enough apples to supply the home demand. Indiana is a heavy buyer of apples. It should have apples to sell to less favored localities.
Indiana apple growers have an advantage of approximately $175 per car, over growers in the northwest, in freight rates alone for the transportation of their crops to the Chicago and New York markets.
Other conditions favorable to the development of commercial apple growing in Indiana are:—low priced fruit lands which are already producing apples of a quality second to none; accessibility of a large number of good markets; an under supplied home market; an increasing demand for the crop.
The fact that the apple has thrived in Indiana for a hundred years proves that the conditions are favorable. The fact is further proved by the experience of Indiana apple growers who are following up-to-date methods in the production of the crop. Profits of $100 per acre or more are not uncommon. One grower last season sold $3200 worth of fruit from two and one-half acres of 22-year old trees, making an estimated net profit of $960 per acre.
Many Indiana apple orchards have been allowed to fall into decline and many potential fruit growers have refrained from going into the business because it was thought to be an impossible or prohibitively costly and complex operation to protect the crop from its natural insect and fungous enemies. By modern meth-
Object Description
| Title | Extension Circular, no. 030 (Oct. 1911) |
| Purdue Identification Number | UA14-13-circular030 |
| Title of Issue | Commercial Apple Growing |
| Author of Issue | |
| Date of Original | 1911 |
| Publisher | Purdue University. Agricultural Extension Service |
| Subjects (LCSH) |
Apples--Indiana Fruit-culture--Indiana |
| Genre | Periodical |
| Collection Name | Extension Circular (Purdue University. Agricultural Extension Service) |
| Rights Statement | Copyright Purdue University. All rights reserved. |
| Coverage | United States – Indiana |
| Type | text |
| Format | JP2 |
| Language | eng |
| Repository | Purdue University Libraries |
| Date Digitized | 06/09/2015 |
| Digitization Information | Original scanned at 400 ppi on a BookEye 3 scanner using Opus software. Display images generated in Contentdm as JP2000s; file format for archival copy is uncompressed TIF format. |
| URI | UA14-13-circular030.tif |
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| Title | Page 001 |
| Purdue Identification Number | UA14-13-circular030 |
| Title of Issue | Commercial Apple Growing |
| Author of Issue | |
| Date of Original | 1911 |
| Publisher | Purdue University. Agricultural Extension Service |
| Genre | Periodical |
| Collection Name | Extension Circular (Purdue University. Agricultural Extension Service) |
| Rights Statement | Copyright Purdue University. All rights reserved. |
| Coverage | United States – Indiana |
| Type | text |
| Format | JP2 |
| Language | eng |
| Transcript | PURDUE UNIVERSITY Agricultural Experiment Station Circular No. 30 LaFayette, Ind., October, 1911 AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION XIII COMMERCIAL APPLE GROWING The possibilities for success in commercial apple growing in Indiana are as great as those possessed by any other locality. In the undeveloped apple lands of Indiana the state possesses an agricultural resource of immense potential value, of which advantage should be taken at an early date. Notwithstanding the excellent opportunities for success in commercial apple growing, Indiana is not now raising enough apples to supply the home demand. Indiana is a heavy buyer of apples. It should have apples to sell to less favored localities. Indiana apple growers have an advantage of approximately $175 per car, over growers in the northwest, in freight rates alone for the transportation of their crops to the Chicago and New York markets. Other conditions favorable to the development of commercial apple growing in Indiana are:—low priced fruit lands which are already producing apples of a quality second to none; accessibility of a large number of good markets; an under supplied home market; an increasing demand for the crop. The fact that the apple has thrived in Indiana for a hundred years proves that the conditions are favorable. The fact is further proved by the experience of Indiana apple growers who are following up-to-date methods in the production of the crop. Profits of $100 per acre or more are not uncommon. One grower last season sold $3200 worth of fruit from two and one-half acres of 22-year old trees, making an estimated net profit of $960 per acre. Many Indiana apple orchards have been allowed to fall into decline and many potential fruit growers have refrained from going into the business because it was thought to be an impossible or prohibitively costly and complex operation to protect the crop from its natural insect and fungous enemies. By modern meth- |
| Repository | Purdue University Libraries |
| Date Digitized | 06/09/2015 |
| Digitization Information | Original scanned at 400 ppi on a BookEye 3 scanner using Opus software. Display images generated in Contentdm as JP2000s; file format for archival copy is uncompressed TIF format. |
| URI | UA14-13-circular030.tif |
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