Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-01-28
The EIorticuIturist.

The publisher of this valuable work has changed the
time of commencing the volume, to correspond with
the year, so that the new volume commences with the
January number. This will accommodate those order
ly persons, who make their arrangements to conform
to prescribed times and who would think of SUBJ
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OF the volume He has also improved the typographical
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lu, and will compare well in this respect, with the
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know that better recommend it to the pat
ronage of readers than by giving the following ex-
tract from an article in the number for this month";
SOME FACTS ABOUT ORCHARDS IN NEw-ENG-
| Landry Henry f. French, EEaer, ~. H.-How
strange is that no more attention is paid in New
England to raising fruit regular OF profit
An instance of Yankee shrewdness has recently come
to my knowledge, which well illustrates the advantages
of knowing something this subject. In the spring
OF 1916, Mr.. w. was engaged in grating apple trees
in various parts of Rockingham county, and with the
rest, grated enough amount to about twelve dollars
tor Mr.. r., of BRENTWOOD upon an old orchard of nat
ural fruit, consisting OF about hundred trees. Mr.
H. thought it rather extravagant expend SO much in
an experiment hopeless, and w. finally proposed
that he would go on IN subsequent years. and graft as
puning and receive for his pay one half the fruit that
should grow his gratis during the next twelve wears
and X. should cultivate the land among them for his
profit. This considered very liberal promo.
slton and at once accepted, and the contract was re-
duced to writing, and executed. happened to be at
Brentwood during the past autumn Just after w had
called for his share of the fruit and learned that the
scons set in lS46, Tor setting which, he had charged
twelve dollars produced barrels Of marketable
Baldwin Apples, worth twenty-four dollars. Mr.. R.
had become SO far convinced of his mistake, that he
offered w. one hundred dollars release his interest in
the orchard, which w. promptly declined. soon at.
forwards met w and conversed with him on the SUBJ
ject, and he said that far from releasing his interest
IN the contracts for that sum- he would not sell his share
OF the fruit for one year, for that amount and allow the
purchaser to choose it out of the term.
He has now grated most of the trees with the Bald.
win Apple, and thinks he shall get more than hun
dred dollars year, each of the euen years of the
last halt OF his term. The year is, as you well
know, the bearing year for the Baldwin, throughout
New England. Mr.. w. further informs me- that he
has made many similar contracts in the neghborhood
and has acquired am interest in about one tbousand
trees that his share Of apples grown on land of other
people, the past fall, ninety barrels, and that none
of the scons which produced set prior to IS45
He grated one tree in 1885, which produced in 1880
six barrels OF fruit and that he knows fifty trees which
this year produced ten barrels each, worth in Or
$780,
Now, there are scattered ali over New England. all
chards OF natural fruit, which is either fed to swine
made into cider As food for swine sour apples are
little letter thannothing 1 have given hundreds Of
bushels to my swine, which seemed to find at least
rational amusement in eating them Indeed for store
pigs, they do toeraby well, but for atteng animals.
should adopt the principle laid down in the good wo
mans receipt for making sawdus bread the less
dust the better the bread.' Sweet apples are worth
perhaps onc-sixth much per bushe as food for AMI
mails, as Indian corn and this viii just about nav for
gathering them. z7
As to cider, we estimate that eight bushels Of apnes
will make one barrel Of cider, worth one dollar aud
fifty cents, which will pay man who has any tbina
else to do, for his labor in making it. if YOU give him
the fruit The trees The natural fruit then is Of mo-
value, and the facts before stated show how read;l
the useless trees which produce it, may be made yaua
BILE.
No portion Of the world is better, and think none
so well, adapted to this fruit, as New England Our
Baldwin Apple is in perfection about the middle or Ian
uary, and our Russets in eating until June Indeed
we often see the old years fruit Of our orchards s;de
by side with that ofhe year. &c. after the annes
Of more Southern orchards have decayed we have ,ha
market to ourselves Steam navigation renders xnnr
tatlon to the whole world, easy for u.s. and tie home
consumption, as weas foreign, must Increase beyond
the supply, for generation to come, at least.