The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-16
TATE'S APPLE
 CROP VERY P9OP Fit This Year Only to Make Roaming Cider-Mother's Pies Will Suffer.
RUINED BY WEATHER.
Great Luck of Apple Pro- ducers on Pacific
 Coast.

Hartford, Sept. 15,-Tf any city man in this State has planned to buy bar rel of native apples for his comfort abour Thanksgiving time he may as well make new plan for barrels of fine native apples this year will be as scarce as baskets of fine native beach, es. The latter were put out of business by the severe winter but the apple had other troubles which produced the same result There are many farm CTS who will mourn the absence of the apple but they are sorry not as those without hope for there is a prospect of a pretty fair yield of cider.
 1'his last assertion may seen incon- sistent with tho former one but it is not for there are plenty of apples in Connecticut of the cider variety, little and knotty and wormy but just as good for elder for all that. JAS they hang on the trees now they look tough in sew eral senses of the word and for that very reason they will produce cider with a nigh per cent. of trouble in it.
 The troubles of the apple have in- creased during the last decade and not ably so since the appearance of the San Jose scale, pest which ought not to have a saint name attached to it f1r 1t is absolutely depraved and serves no purpose except 10 decrease the pro duction of fruit trees and increase the output of profanity There are too, working at the trees, an ever increas- ing multitude of caterpillars, bugs and worms all doing their best to decrease the apple crop and this year they were aided by the season.
 The apple trees bore up under the prolonged cold and wet weather of May and June and, despite that there might have been a good crop had not this been followed by the dry weather of July and August which came at the very time when the apples needed rain to perfect their growth. That was just when they did not get 1t and the ap- pies either dropped off the trees or else remained on, undersized and l1notty, not having had half chance to de- velop.
 There are a few exceptions to the rule as the southeastern part of New London county has fairly good growth and some good specimens of the fruit were shown at the Orange fair last week, where one or two ex- hibits were snapped up to be shown at the Jamestown exposition. The rest of the State though has little to show. Litchfeld county, where apples are wont to be good has few except the sour little ones produced by natural growth trees whose vitality seems proof against the various insect pests. It certainly means a cider crop for the State and. later on in the winter, work for the country justice of the peace and occasionally for the coroner.
 It is just possible that northern New York will supply a part of Connecti- cuts demand for apples next winter, but if it does not, the State of Wash- ington will-to those who have the price. Already enterprising men in that State are sending out notices of the abundance and excellence of the apple crop and the apples will undoubtedly be on hand when the season is fit. The stores were filled with them last year, but as they retailed at five cents each the average laboring man did not lay in great many. There is no likelihood tht they will be cheaper this year.
 The fruit is certainly fine looking, as each apple makes it's trip across the country carefully wrapped in it's indi- vidual bit of paper. It is perfect in form, free from imperfections and col ored like the wonderful creations shown in books which the nurserymen carries when he solicits orders. The best of the crop is exported, but those sent here are not to be despised.
 The Washington crop this year is es. timated at 5,O0O.000 boxes and the res idents of that State are perfectly aware of it's importance. Fruit infected with the codling moth or the San Jose scale is connseated and destroyed and inspectors are stationed in the apple districts and every effort is made to se- cure perfect fruit and to protect the trees.
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