. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. COLLEGE MEN FIND DONED SUCCESS IN ORCHARD. OLD ABAN- Borrowing the capital and renting an old "worth- less" pear and apple orchard of ninety-five acres, fourteen miles south of Kansas City, two graduates of the College of Agriculture of the University of Missouri, Ben Colman and Paul H. Shepard, both of the class of 1916, began the application of the theo- ries which had been given them in their college course. The orchard was from twelve to twenty years old and the crop had not sold for enough for several years to pay the taxes on the land. When they
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. COLLEGE MEN FIND DONED SUCCESS IN ORCHARD. OLD ABAN- Borrowing the capital and renting an old "worth- less" pear and apple orchard of ninety-five acres, fourteen miles south of Kansas City, two graduates of the College of Agriculture of the University of Missouri, Ben Colman and Paul H. Shepard, both of the class of 1916, began the application of the theo- ries which had been given them in their college course. The orchard was from twelve to twenty years old and the crop had not sold for enough for several years to pay the taxes on the land. When they took charge of the orchard, after leas- ing it for five years on a cash rent basis, they began to spray and prune the trees. The trees were sprayed four times during the season. Because of a lack of capital they were unable to spray the whole orchard. They later found that the sprayed trees produced the best apples while the unsprayed ones bore fruit that was not worth the plucking. Then began the culling out on the trees before the apples were ripe. The clusters were cut to one apple and quality rather than quantity was sought. Apple buyers learned of this and the crop was dis- posed of easily. The young men kept books on all their operations, placing their orchard on a business basis. At the end of the season they had made 50 per cent on their operating capital and 10 per cent on the capital invested in the farm, orchard, operating expenses and equipment. In addition to this, they exhibited their apples at the Missouri State Fair and there, in competition with what are said to be the best apples in the United States, won first prize on the best bushel of commercial apples of any variety; first prize for Ingram apples; first on Cauben pears, and second on Keifel pears. Both Shepard and Colman are well known to horse- men of Missouri as they were active officials during the last two Commencement Horse Shows at Co- lumbia. One hundred and fifteen head of horses, mules and cattl
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