This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Mincer Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4150 Message Board Post: THE FREMONT COUNTY HERALD. August 12, 1910. "A Profitable Orchard".--Fruit growers and those who are in position to know what they are talking about claim that in all Iowa there is only one full bearing apple orchard this year. It is the property of C. E.Mincer of Fremont county and its well laden trees bear testimony to the value of painstaking care and scientific methods in fruit growing and farming. Mr. Mincer foritfied his orchard against the late frosts that destroyed the apple blossoms throughout this section of the west. He laid in a generous supply of crude petroleum and firepots and during the cold nights he kept up a thousand fires and smudges in his orchard. It meant an outlay of money and much patient labor, but it paid.The blossoms were saved and his trees will yield a 90 per cent crop, whose value in the market at the nearest town of Hamburg is estimated at not less than $10,000. Other orchardists in the county adopted the same means for protecting, and perhaps labored as diligently as did Mr. Mincer to protect their crops, but with indifferent success on account of being less advantageously located. This orchard lies at the foot of a high bluff which protects it from the wind and the use of firepots proved very effective, while on high ground where the wind had full sweep they were of little or no value. Mr. Mincer has a fine crop and the present prospects are tha the will reap a rich reward from his endeavors.