Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-12-09
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sold about so barrels Of Wolf Rivers, Blu
PearmaiDs, etc.
Ell. Allis had about IS barrels O
Bethels to dispose of this year and gener
ally sends other varieties to market.
James Swain, on the Albert Sargen
farm. picked something like 25 barrels o
Fsmeuse. Mcintosh Reds and Northern
Spies.
The orchard on the @. w. PantoD farm
now the property OF L. d. Partridge o.
Randolph, produced IS barrels OF apples
largely Arctics, with some Russets and
ToIman Sweets.
W. f. Huggard, who bought the
George c. Smith farm, usually harvests 81
barrels or more Of Hampshire Sweets
Fameuse and q good many Foundiings.
Ansel Richards cultivates plums as well
as apples but has quite an orchard OF
Nodheads.
Henry Lambert on the Frederick Rutz
farm, sold % barrels OF Nodheads TO the
shipper.
Earl Gaylord's orchard, which covers
less han an acre, gave wonderful yield
OF apples-75 barrels OF Fameuse, Toll
man Sweets, Connecticut Greetings, Bot
tie Greetings, Mildings, few Northern
Spies and some Ben Davis. The Milding
is not a common apple but it is a very
fne variety.
II. NJ. Gaylord's orchard OF an acre and
q half ordinarily yields 80 or so barrels
but this year il produced only 20 barrels
of Fameuse, Leader, Bethels, Tolman
Sweets, Rhode Island Greetings, Russets
and a few OF other varieties.
Clifford Lewis sold some 20 barrels OF
Northern Spies, Bethels and Fameuse.
Leon Batchelder has two or three acres
of trees, which yield 70 or 100 barrels OF
apples, and he raises good many
Fameuse and Hampshire Sweets.
Fifty or so barrels OF apples can be
picked up in the orchard Of Clarence Ban
lister.
Loren Snow grew not far from go bar
rels Of Wolf Rivers, Greetings, Russets,
Bethels and Tolman Sweets in nice
orchard covering an acre or more.
Curtis Kibbee usually harvests lot OF
apples but this year he had to sell only
IS or 18 barrels OF Bethels, Tolman
Sweets, Mcintosh Reds and Belleheurs,
the last named being a fine cooking
apple.
Irving Abbott. too, has quite an orch
ard, and Henry Hyde raises good many
Northern Spies and Greetings.
TUNBRIDGE.
George Webster, near the Randolph
line, raised probably 80 barrels Of Wolf
Rivers, Bethels and Northern Spies.
James Rowell took to the car 100 bar.
rels from different Tunbridee orchards.
Thomas Smith, at the top OF the noun
tain on the road to Tunbridge fair, has an
orchard producing over 100 barrels.
w. II. Hayward is another good fruit
grower and brought to market about 80
barrels OF Greetings, Nodheads and
Northern Spies.
In regard to apple culture in this sec,
tion, the Herald is indebted to A. M.
Vaughan, well-known horticulturist, for
the following practical suggestions
which can be perused with advantage by
many an apple grower.
A. NJ. VAUGHAN ON APPLE CULTURE
Aside from the expense incurred in
picking and packing the crop, the apple
industry is all clear profit, aslno one cul-
tivates his orchard TO promote healthy
satisfactory annual growth; no on,
sprays bis orchard to keep the foliage and
fruit free from fungus and insect pests,
and only few do any pruning aside
from chopping on few branches, which
interfere with haying. Consequently il
Is like going out In October and discover
ing q gold mine to find 1900 barrels Of
apples at $3.50 barrel to ship from oul
local station in q poor year like this one
In a majority of cases this enables the
discouraged farmer to purchase hay and
grain to make up for the loss due to dry
weather and grasshoppers.
We are quite likely to have dry seasons
and grasshoppers in years to come; bul
seldom viii we have poorer yield of ap
Piles. In view OF the foregoing, isn't II
about time we cut out a few OF the grass
hopper afflicted acres from our regular
farm rotation and plant them to apple
trees Il Is lamentahle fact that the
majority Of the local orchards are neglect.
ed and are getting old. Twenty-Five
acres would accommodate all the trees
that nave been planted in this and cd,
joining towns for the past ten years.
This is not as It should be and unless
young men wake up to the situation APP
pie culture a. local industry will be-
come extinct In a few years.
Before you decide to plant apples OF
any other species OF fruit trees, decide,
and with determination, to take care OF
them. II will be best to raise some cron
on the site OF the proposed orchard the
year previous in order that the grass roots
msE be nearly all killed, as grass is the
worst enemy 10 young tree before its
root system IL firmly established. II also
AFFORDS a shelter for mice and after the
trees are once planted you can never
again ploH and harrow closely to them
without danger OF injury. Pillow the
orchard each year and keep it cultivated
until midsummer, when cultivation
should cease TO allow the wood to ripen
before cold weather. Better yet, plant
between the trees some crop which re-
quires cultivation; then the trees will
surely get il.
Give the trees plenty Of room, never
plant closer than 80 feet and 40 feet will
be better.
After trees come to bearing they must
be sprayed TO get the best results. More
than fifty per cent Of all the apples raised
are infested With codiing moth (apple
maggotl Ninety per cent OF this can be
avoided by spraying With arsenates Just
after the blossoms fall and again the
latter part OF June. The FIRST brood lays