New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-10-06
4 SPLENDID APPLE CROP.

CONNECTICUT FARMERS REJOICE IN THE RE.
M,RKABLE YIELD OF THEIR ORCHARDS.
Waterbury, Conn, oct. 1SpeciaD-This Is
harvest season OF unusual interest to farmers as well
a. to novices in the routine OF farm life. The nay
ing season Is familiar 10 summer visitors ana 70
readers that II would seem that no other than the
hay and grain harvest could be so picturesque or
attractive bat no artist, poet or writer could pre-
sent IN or paper the picture OF the
harvesting Of the apple crop as II presents IT,
SELF 10 the vision OF the city cousin The trees
are laden as they have not been laden before In
many years with the yellow, the green and the req
ripenad apples and farmers and their help. with
their ladders baskets their big bags ana great
oxcarts are az busy they would be In the nay
field with the threatening OF showers gathering
tn. fruit that is to be distributed In due time All
over this continent and on the one across the At
lantic
The fruit is OF many varieties that one can
hardy recall the various names that distinguish one
apple from another. one accustomed TO buying them
AZ the corner grocery" would simply describe them
a. tho green apple the yellow" apple, the red
apple and the striped" apple. These terms compre-
bend all the various kinds as known by the one
who ma never lived on farm. bui the country boy
knows them all and he well k?o~s that green
app.e means one that i not ripe
The summer having ssad. apples being gathered
now are Of course. for winter Use. and they are
assorted and put away in bins in cellars 10 be used
according 10 their lie Of goodness-;hat is' before
they expected TO begin 70 decay All OF the
varieties can be used In pies or in other methods OF
cooking but not all are really choice for table USE
The Richard Sweet and the "Tailman Sweet are
A nice apple and they OF good size this year ana
many prefer them for table use. but the majority
Ike little tartness for the after-dinner eating
hence the Spltzbergen Is favorite The Giiiinower
NJ pig Nose is a choice apple for the table being
psasant in flavor and mealy in substance. The
Baldwin Maiden's Blush Hurlbu, Stripes. Straw
berry Northern Spy. King Tompkins and seek-No-
Fur,hers are choice varieties OF red apples to %
found here Then come the Rhode Island Greenins
an excellent cooking apple and very much III ia.ot
for table fruit: also the Newtown plppln anu .ns
Rlsse,s The latter H. fruit that lasts longer man
any other apple for table use and II OF eXceiehty
preserved flavor even to late in the spring. ~
Niddlebury. Of the farming towns IN New
choice varieties and the farmers are taking srea.
pains in picking them So tnat tney may pr Up.
as long as possible Some feel that the crop ia, y
little premature and that the fruit may not Keep
50 long IN the winter. but they are taking every
precaiton 10 select only the best fruit Tor ate WIN
fer use ON Monday. when the gathering or the crop
began. the ground under the trees was thichN
covered with the fallen fruit ana yet me trees nuns
So full that they seemed not 10 miss thar WHICH
had fallen and the great weight on the limbs bent
them close to the ground The men win 'nrM s
the carefulness with which they handled me ruit,
called to mind the in the southern 'ahiortI1
scribed in Middebury duplicated in the orchards
of the farms AZ Southburv Woodbury.. Watertewn.
bethlehem. Roxbury Morris Washington ana otner
towns in New Haven and l.tchiiel1 counties
Another crop that surprises farmers is the potato
yield that IL Is unusually large as u the apple
crop but IL large and The potatoes Of good Iualty
farmers apprehensiye that they would lose an ne
seed to say nothing OF the loss Of the use OF tns
being dug shows that the dry season has not nee"
so harmful to potato-growing as they had feared