The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-05-12
MAY LEAD IN APPLES.
Secretary Ellsworth of Massachusetts
State Board of Agriculture Says
Impetus Has Been Given to Fruit
Growing in New England.

! throwing III New England.
"In very few years we shall see
New England in the same place in
the worlds apple market that is now
occupied by Oregon and Washington
| am confident of this. 1t needs only
the continuance of activity and eff
forts already to be seen. We are
going to keep it up" said Secretar.
j. Lewis Ellsworth, of the State Board
of Agriculture, discussing apple
growing in Massachusetts, and else
where in New England, according to
the Boston Herald.
Mr.. Ellsworth cited the showing
made at the New England fruit show
in Horticultural Hall last fall, when
there were shown specimens of ap-
pies and other fruits which experts
said could be placed side by side with
the best Hood River or the Wenat-
chez Valley ever produced without
losing by the comparison.
And that show" said Mr.. Els
worth with enthusiasm, mot only
awakened the farmers of New Eng
land to the possibilities open to them,
and the men who are not farmers,
to a new commercial outlook which
they had not before seen, but it had
another effect. 1t necessitated the ad-
vertlsing of the Western apples here
in the East. These fellows out there
are organized to get the best market
and they will not lose their grip on
it without struggle, but all of this
advertising in which they are now in
dulging goes to show that they are
fully awake to the fact that they have
lin New England a formidable rival
so cents per bushel nearer the world s
greatest markets than they themselves
are.
1T is not going to take many years
before New England apples will be as
well known abroad as any others, and
their flavor will sell them in compe-
tition with any apple"
| Mr.. Ellsworth's statement was
drawn out by the publication in a
United States consular report recon-
mending American apple growers
particularly those on the Pacific
coast" to exhibit at the British fairs
With New England by no means
supplying its home market, there is
: no need for attempting to cultivate
! the British or other European mar
ket, say some present and prospec.
tive apple growers in this section
AS long as Oregon and Washington
fruit is present in the home market
in such quantities there is no need in
looking elsewhere these men declare
Their contention, however, is met
with the declaration that the British
market is good because of the prices
; paid, and because if the superabund
f snce of apples which it is hoped New
, England will produce in the near flu.
, ture is to meet with ready sale or
the other side of the Atlantic repu
tation must first be made for then
over there
Western fruit growers are addins
the cost of transatlantic shipment t
q the freight rates across the contin
: ent, and still sell the apples of Oregon
. and Washington and other States a
e handsome profit in England ant
= other British cities. If New England
f say the market students, crowds thes,
= growers out of the home market i
| will find them deeply intrenchet
: abroad unless it makes a name for it
own fruit over there in the mean time
British Columbia, in it's efforts t,
increase colonization, has been exhi
biting apples at British shows ant
o. one of the results has been a demant
: for the fruit for the market which tn
a exhibitors have been unable to meet
g Canadian apples from other part
= of the Dominion, however, have
5. large place in the British market. No
Q va Scotia growers, especially thos
e of the Annapolis valley, have TO
= years sent almost their entire outpu
- to England, Ireland and Scotland, an
their fruit has earned high reputatio
: The first American efforts to com
&C pete with them were not very produC
@ tive, owing to the inferior gradin
e and packing of the fruit from tn
h United States. This was because Me-
Englanders who attempted gettin
IS part of the market away from tn
d Nova Scotians, had not learned tn
lie Importance of these things. Pacii
= coast growers, however, have acquil
~ ed solid hold on "a part of the Bril-
ish market, owing to the eXcellenc
10 of their grading and the care wit
&c which they prepare their package
in which are usually bushel boxes.
a The consular report states that CT
Is madam fruit has won it's importal
l. place in the British market largel
a because of the careful governmel
III inspection of shipments" 1t intimat,
that shippers from the United Stat,
or cannot be too careful in grading.
is Tasmanian, New Zealand and Au
- tralian apples find a ready sale
the United Kingdom, largely becaus
al they appear in good supply at Il
so time the American apples are disa