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<p>Oklahoma had a lot of Orchards on the Eastern border with
Arkansas. Stillwell foods was a major frozen food manufacturer
with Apple, Peach, and Strawberry cobbler and Frozen Apples
Peaches and strawberries and Okra. When the fruit trees were not
bearing, they grew Okra, strawberries, and some beans that could
be frozen. They used Indian labor and the Indians had a part
ownership in the factory. Then came the Bingo Halls and later the
Casinos. It was too easy for them to make money serving the
gambling industry, so the orchards and plowed fields were later
put into grass and the factory was closed. I heard that a tribe
had bouht the old factory and was going to turn it into a Casino.
The old row crop tractors they used went to a salvage dealer in
Arkansas.<br>
Cecil<br>
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<div>I have two apple trees in my back yard. Maybe I can call
them an orchard. :-) <br>
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<div>I do want to plant about 4 more at other locations around
the farm this spring. I may never eat an apple off of any of
those but son Scott should and hopefully a few other
descendants might.</div>
<div>I'm going to take out 2 bearing persimmon trees that are in
the wrong place and I want to plant about 4 persimmon trees in
other locations to replace them. The two I am removing are too
messy where they are in the yard and they are competing badly
with a young Beech tree and I would rather save the Beech in
the yard. As long as I am able I'll keep planting trees,
especially fruit and nut trees. I also have a lot of mature
Tulip Poplar trees dying and so I am saving every new sprout
and moving them to certain locations when they are about 18"
tall. It's just kind of my thing... :-)<br>
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> What makes me sad are the orchards
disappearing. My first job as a 14 year old boy was to pull
suckers and run irrigation drippers through an apple
orchard, in Grand Rapids, MI. Now the whole area is littered
with strip malls and restaurants. Not a fruit tree to be
seen.<br>
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<div>There are a few old orchards in this area and quite
a few newer ones. One of the newer ones has more
recently added hundreds of peach trees. The orchards
in that case along with a large sweet corn operation
is a replacement for that families confinement hog
operation. It all comes about during a generation
change. All of the orchards around here are not really
mega volume many semi loads heading to some factory
type of things. They make their main income as
"destinations" with steady sales along and a lot of
weekend events in the fall that also usually involve a
lot of pumpkins as well. Some even involve a few old
tractors.</div>
<div>We always had an old sales adage... "Sell the
sizzle, not the steak". :-)</div>
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My Grandpa was a fruit farmer here in southwest
Michigan until the mid 70's. He had migrant
workers from Arkansas, and during WWII, German
POW's picking fruit. What killed the apple
industry here was that cheaper transportation
brought Washington apples to our markets
(Chicago). The WA apples look nicer, but don't
taste as good, but people buy them based on
looks. I still have the John Deere AO that he
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<div> The area I grew up in lost many of its apple
orchards due to Washington state which harvests
apples with immigrant labor. Will robot apple
harvesters bring back apple growing nationwide?
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