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Friday, July 29, 2022

Mountain Apple Crop Will Be Very Short This Year, Says Dr. J.B. Ewing, July 29, 1922

Apple Crop Short in Mountains This Year. . . Dr. Ewing, Well Known Boonford Grower, Tells of Conditions—Estimates 10 Per Cent

Monroe, July 28—Dr. J.B. Ewing of Boonford was in Monroe yesterday and stated that the apple crop in the mountains of western North Carolina as a whole is very short, that less than 10 per cent of a full crop, will be harvested. However Dr. Ewing, who has been bringing fine apples from his orchards to Monroe for the past several years, will be located at the Crowell stand on East Jefferson street about the 15th of October, and will again furnish Monroe and Union county citizens plenty of his splendid apples.

Dr. Ewing explains that while the crop s extremely short in the mountains, his orchards are located between the frost and freeze line, from 3,000 to 4,000 feet above sea level, and that the immunity from frosts and freezes is due to air drainage. Consequently he has a bumper crop. His sugar gap and high peak orchards have failed but twice in 70 years, the first time 40 years ago when there was a freeze on the fifth day of June, and again last year when a freeze visited that section on May 5th.

The doctor states that the crop failure in most sections of the mountains this year is due to the fact that last year both the crop of apples and the fruit buds in process of formation for another year, were destroyed and consequently the trees did not bloom at all this year.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, July 29, 1922

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