The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-14
NEW ENGLAND
 APPLES
Better Flavor Than Western Fruit-Profits of Apple
 Culture Large.
One Vermont Growers Gross Income $18,OOO from 100 Acres-His To- tai Expense $4,ooo-Oth- CT Cases of Large Profits.


 New England grown apples, large and rosy and with flavor that grow CTS in other sections have sought in vain to secure, are being exhibited by the Boston Chamber of Commerce in a prominent window on Washington Street. They prove that New Eng land can hold her own in competition with the West when western methods are used, and they offer an incentive to commercial orchadizing in many places in this section where it has not yet been tried.
 The exhibit is drawing crowds daily. and many persons are taking away copies of the report on sHThe Future of the New England Farm issued by the Chambers Committee on Agricul- ture. In connection with this apple giving convincing statistics of the profits that growers in all six of the New England States are making.
 As result of it's investigations, the committee on agriculture has become very optimistic in regard to the future of agriculture and horticulture in New England. The committee has found scattered through different States and in great variety of sections, many instances of positive success, where farmers, particularly those who spe- good deal of money today. These are men each of whom have adopted some on branch of farming and have made it a careful study, so that they have become experts in that particular line and have carried it to a high state of perfection. The committee has es- pecially investigated apple raising, and found that there seems to be no ques- tion that all the New England states have succeedful orchards, but that these are scattered. For instance, farmer in Charlotte Vermont, on 100 acres of apples has received gross income of s18.0o0 in 1909, which, esti- shows net margin of about $14,O00. He writes also that 40 acres of this orchard has not yet come to it's full maturity and he expects better figures
 Undoubtedly the leading orchardist in New England is MT. J. H. Hale, of South Glastonbury, Conn.,, who has in all about 80 acres of peaches and apples. From one orchard of 150 acres of peaches, in 1909 MT Hale has re- cefved gross income of $23,0o0. while Seymour, Conn, he has received this year from 10 acres of apples $2, 400. MT. Hale has also an orchard of 2,000 acres of peaches in Georgia He must, therefore. be classed as man of con siderable riches, based on his income. Here is an instance of New Eng land man showing great business abll- ity and exhibiting it on the farm which he inherited from his father. Mir. Hale owes his success to specializing. He is not a farmer in the sense of | his farms he uses 75 horses and mules, but he does not keep a dairy He man with a thoroughly equipped of- fice-bookkeeper and stenographer. He is a man of considerable 1eisure-one who devotes a large part of his time from his farm that the Chambers committees on agriculture has obtain ed the finest specimens of fruit He has developed the business in all re- SpectS. not only in raising the best fruit but in finding the most approved method of marketing it. He packs it in boxes, each apple or peach being wrapped in paper; both paper and boxes, bearing his brand. He has also developed tie sale of his goods in nearby markets, finding a sale in. Con- necticut for almost all the fruit which Among other instances of conspicu- oI1s success in fruit raising which have come to the notice of the com nlittee, may be mentioned the peach farm of John A. Martin of Wallingford, Conn, containing some 75 acres, from which on his last crop gross in come was received of $17, 800.
 One of the oldest and most success ful orchards ins all New England is located on an island in Lake Cham plain and is owned by MT. T. l.. Kin ney. Apples have been growing on this soil for 130 years the trees hay ing been twice renewed. MT. Kinney has built a. cold storage house on his own farm, thus holding his apples and shipping carload a week to the Bos- ton market, consigning them to his son. who is in the fruit business in this city On the, street in which he lives in South Hero there are continuous so that the view from the tower of his apple house during the b1ossoming seeson is one of rare beauty.
 There are numerous other instances of very successful apple raising on both large and small scales. For in stance, the town of Buckfeld, Maine. pies in 1909 while the value of apples shipped from Shelbourne Falls, Mass, on this crop is $10G,o0o.
 Speaking of exports, the committee Taylor, field pomologfst of the De- partment of Agriculture in Washington that Of all the apples exported to Eu- rope from this country 30 per cent are raised in New England.
 The hope and desire of the committee is that the farmers of New England who have from one to ten acres of ap- ples will deem it worth while to adopt modern methods and renovate them. for it is proven beyond doubt that orchards thus brought up by modern methods can be made to yield a gross income of from $200 to $500 an acre in three or four years. It is ture is properly advertised the value of our farm lands will increase. for information has come from the Secre- tary of the State Board of Agriculture of vermont that some twenty farms have been bought in Vermont by peo pie coming from western states. The tide has actually turned, and it is req sonable to suppose that the western farmer will look to the East in the very near future. rather than pay the extremely high prices for western land. All that is necessary is to advertise the great possibilities here so close to the great markets of the East. The western fruit growers have organized themselves into associations not only for. the sale of fruit. but for adver- Using and sale of land; and they have carried that system to an extremely high point of excellence. If we could do one fourth as well in advertising ,..,a A1o,,- I'm gland onnnrtunitieS there