7 Chapter 5 The Apple Business Grows

Chapter 5 The Apple Business Grows In 1800, the census counted 5.3 million people in the United States. Pennsylvania was getting too crowded to suit Johnny. When he was twenty-six, he led a horse across the Pennsylvania border into Ohio. It was carrying a load of apple seeds. He planted his first Ohio orchard near the town of Carrollton. He would plant many more orchards in north and central Ohio.

1800年，人口普查统计出美国有530万人口。 宾西法尼亚人越来越多了，约翰尼受不了了。 26岁时，他牵着一匹马越过宾夕法尼亚边境进入俄亥俄州。 它载着一车苹果籽。 他在卡罗尔顿镇附近种下了他在俄亥俄州的第一个果园。 他将在俄亥俄州北部和中部种植更多的果园。

At this time, most of Ohio was still a forested wilderness full of bears and other wild animals. Not many people lived there, and the ones who did were rough and wild. Johnny had grown up in the colonies, so he stood out among these men. Even though he wasn't like them, he seemed to enjoy their company.

在这个时候，俄亥俄州的大部分地区仍然是森林荒野，到处都是熊和其他野生动物。 住在那里的人并不多，而住在那里的人又粗鲁又野蛮。 约翰尼是在殖民地长大的，所以他在这些人中很突出。 尽管他和他们不一样，但他似乎很喜欢他们的陪伴。

Johnny still went back to Pennsylvania cider mills to get seeds in the following years. Once, he tied two canoes together and filled them with apple seeds and supplies and traveled home by river.

在接下来的几年里，约翰尼仍然回到宾夕法尼亚州的苹果酒工厂去买种子。 有一次，他把两只独木舟绑在一起，装满了苹果籽和给养，然后沿河回家。

Many stories of this time involve Johnny surprising settlers by suddenly popping out of the woods. Sometimes he seemed to appear out of nowhere to say hello. At other times, he warned them of hostile Native Americans nearby. The new United States government had decided that an area could become a state when its population reached sixty thousand. In 1803 Ohio became the seventeenth state. Johnny realized that central Ohio would become a major pathway for pioneers settling in the area and farther west. He began to focus on his Ohio orchards.

这个时期的许多故事都涉及到约翰尼突然从树林里跳出来，让定居者们大吃一惊。 有时他似乎不知从哪里冒出来打招呼。 在其他时候，他警告他们附近有敌意的印第安人。 新的美国政府决定，当一个地区的人口达到6万时，这个地区就可以成为一个州。 1803年，俄亥俄州成为美国第17个州。 约翰尼意识到，俄亥俄州中部将成为拓荒者在该地区和更远的西部定居的主要途径。 他开始把重点放在俄亥俄州的果园上。

This ability to envision the future is what made Johnny so important in the history of American settlement. He had a knack for figuring out where people were going to move to next. Before a big rush of people went to a new area, he somehow got there first and planted apple trees. Other farmers gathered apple seeds from cider mills just as Johnny did. They planted orchards in the frontier, too. But most of them settled down next to their orchards. They built homes and began families. Johnny stayed on the move, planting as

这种预见未来的能力使约翰尼在美国殖民史上如此重要。 他有一种本领，能预测出人们下一步要搬到哪里去。 在一大群人去一个新的地区之前，他不知怎么地先到了那里，种了苹果树。 其他农民也像约翰尼一样从苹果酒磨坊里收集苹果籽。 他们也在边境种植果园。 但他们中的大多数人都在果园旁边定居下来。 他们建造房屋，组建家庭。 约翰尼一直在移动，种植

he went. Over the years, he planted many orchards spread over three states. No one else did that. The new Ohio state government began offering small areas of land for sale. When Johnny turned thirty-five, he had saved enough money to buy some. This was the first land he ever bought. Johnny told his father about the rich farmland in Ohio. In 1805 his father moved the family to Ohio, settling near Marietta. Johnny didn't live with them. Marietta had been around for a while and already had enough orchards. The Ohio Company wanted settlers to buy land in Ohio and stay there. So they made a rule. Settlers had to plant fifty apple trees and twenty peach trees on every one hundred acres of land they bought. The company believed that settlers would be likely to stay once they had done so much work on a piece of land.

他去了。多年来，他在三个州种植了许多果园。 没人这么做过。新的俄亥俄州政府开始提供小块土地出售。 当约翰尼35岁的时候，他已经攒够钱买了一些。 这是他买的第一块地。 约翰尼把俄亥俄州肥沃的农田告诉了他的父亲。 1805年，他的父亲把家搬到了俄亥俄州，在玛丽埃塔附近定居下来。 约翰尼没有和他们住在一起。 玛丽埃塔已经有一段时间了，已经有了足够的果园。 俄亥俄公司希望移民在俄亥俄州购买土地并定居在那里。 所以他们定了个规矩。移民们必须在他们购买的每100英亩土地上种植50棵苹果树和20棵桃树。 该公司认为，一旦定居者在一块土地上做了这么多工作，他们很可能会留下来。