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Story of Apple Growing in the Stanthorpe District
The fact that men on the land once established on their holdings, can cope with rural diseases, pestilence, and adverse climatic conditions, and still emerge triumphant, was inferred in an informative address on the apple industry delivered by Mr. J. E Smith to the Rotary Club yesterday.
Mr. Smith was speaking on the apple industry of the granite belt, and based his instructive remarks upon experiences in the Stanthorpe district. He said that apple growing in that centre was first tried about 1870 by an Italian priest who observed that the land and conditions were somewhat similar to those that prevailed in the fruit growing districts of Italy.
Old Mining Town
In those days Stanthorpe was a flourishing tin mining town, whose population was intent on its industrial occupation, and not on the future destiny of the place. The hobby of