The Republican journal., 1885-12-31
Connecticut Apples.
, CROP UNPRECEDENTED IN THE HISTORY {
THE SIAIE.

THE STATE.
The apple crop in Connecticut this fall wa,
| phenomenal. The ''oldest inhabitants" :" reuc-
| tant aS they are to confess that ANYTHING hap
| pens nowadays that is not simply IA repetition
of something in their own experience. have to
confess themselves beaten. Apples have been.
and are to-day, drug in the market, and in a
country drive the other day the writer saw
orchards whose trees We're full of frozen fruit
The owners found no profit in picking other
than the more salabl2 table varieties. The
WELD of some orchards and of some individual
trees were astonishing. W. B. Clark of Nor
Wich had Baldwin tree, from which he ''hand-
picked" II barrels and from the ground 10 -
barrels, Il total of u barrels from a single tree.
y. Hamilton of Mplro>c reports gathering 20
bushels from one tree In Chester, thousands
OF bushels were not gathered because of the
scarcity of barrels. and the COWS We're turned
into the orchards. This was the t0yvu which
first reported COWS drunk on cider appMs. and
similar reports came from Il score of other
places. \ Niihgford man had 5000 bushels
Of cider apples. which he left on the trees. as it
cost more to pick them than they would bring
At the cider mill. In Plymouth. W Woodbury. and
other towns. carloads of good eating apples
We're forwarded to charitable associations in
New ork with the freight paid. Thousands
Of barrels have been shipped to Europe by
steamers from New \ ork and Boston. hut bI
no means al a profit in all eases. Secretary
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