The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-11-17


We will never catch up with the pop
ulation, never, especially with the
/ fancy products. Get regular list
Of patrons jus tas the Vermont sugar
maker gets. IL you are going to set
out an apple tree or two on side
hill as an accident Of the farm, and
neglect the trees or buy of oily
tongued travelling agents and secure
inferior trees, the crop will be fail
ure. There will be no profit in 1t. In
10 years or so the only apple trees
worth mentioning in New England
will be the trees that were set out and
| protected and cared for intelligently
just as any other farm crop is cared
for. In 20 years, 90 well-kept trees
on an acre will be worth $1,000"
On Cooperative Work.
T. l.. Kinney of South Hero, anoth-
er expert on the subject of apples,
presented the subject of "Co-operative
Apple Work" He spoke of the confer
ence of Board of Trade and farmers
as the first of its kind in Vermont 10
get together farmers and business
men on subjects that at first thought
seemed to interest the farm alone
The apple grower cannot look to him
self alone.
He depends on everybody for his
supply of trees and for his consump-
| ton. Cooperation is again the key
note of success. The farmer in the
West has learned and we must learn
from the West how to cooperate in
farming work and to cooperate with
the dealer and the consumer in the
town and city. Every man AMI town
and county should be educated to the
knowledge of his soil and by what it
is best adapted
THE Champlain and Connecticut
Valleys are not the only place in
which to grow apples successfully in
Vermont. So many varieties are grown
today that some variety is sure to
grow on your farm and mine"
The speaker spoke of New Hamp-
shire's summer tourist business, Ver-
mont's slowly awakening interest III
securing a like income from the tour
ist business and the relation of the
well-kept farm, the beautiful, mas
sive, straight apple orchards and fruits
in attracting the city jewellers. The
farmer" he said, has the greatest
obligation of any citizen, in making
Vermont attractive to these corners.
There should be large orchards in ev-
cry community and the moral and
aesthetic effect is as far reaching as
the satisfaction and profit to be de-
rived in a well-kept orchard of any
size.
Urges Scientific Work.
He urged cultivation and scientific
work, the feeding of apple trees to
bear as COWS were fed for returns in
butter and milk, the unwisdom Of
growing hay or oats, etc. in the or
chard and expecting bountiful crops
of apples. The speaker went into the
method of setting and trimming and
spraying trees in detail and asked for
a personal interest in every tree YER
mont apples going out of the Stale
should be marked Vermont apples.
Heaven only knows where many of
the apples leaving this State came
from. Oregon and Maine protect Ore
gon and Maine apples. Vermont
should protect Vermont apples.
A. w. Allen of Barre concluded tha
morning session with a talk down on
the program as Apple Sauce" well
spiceD." Mr.. Aliens talk was highly
seasoned and presented the amusing
side of the question in maner which
drew hearty laughter. He told of an
apple orchard which he set out losing
one tree. then ten, then twenty until
only one tree was left and from that
he picked half a peck of dark blue
plums. He concluded with a humor-
Gus letter in broken English relating
to the experiences of Frenchman
with an agent VINO grated his fruit
and the morning session was conclud
ed shortly after noon.
The Afternoon Session.
The attendance was larger even
than that of the morning and includ-
ed many townspeople as well as in
terested parties from outside the city
while the percentage of clean-cut
alert farmers was particularly notice
able as a sign of the times
Professor NJ. B. Cummings of Burl-
ington was the first speaker whose
subject was principles of Orchard
at bids WELL he said
when farmers and teachers and bus
mess men confer for the common
good" He discussed general condi
tions in Vermont, which he said had
a climate not extreme, moderately
cool, and especially adapted to apple
growing. The one criticism might be
the short growing season, but modern
advance the season and ad-
nit fruit to reach it's perfection. We
have good fruit markets in New Eng
land, Local markets are good or
they would be very good if the sup
ply were as good and the fruit as
superior as the demand asks. New
York is an unlimited market for good
quality fruit. Proper methods should
make it impossible for the west to
with us, when the fact is Ia
ken into consideration that Oregon
has to ship her fruit across the con-
tinent to find market.
Farms Left to Themselves.
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