The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-11-17
SYMPOSIUM ON APPLES
HELPFUL ADDRESSES ON RAILS
ING, PACKING AND MARKET
ING THE FRUIT.


Meating Conducted In Kellogg Hub.
bard Library Under Auspices of the
Montpelier Board Of Trade.
That the Vermont farmer is awak-
ening to his possibilities in the bus
mess of apple growing and that the
business man is beginning to under
the producer was made evident by the
encouraging size of the audience at
the first of the series of interesting
talkfests on community subjects
held under the auspices Of the Board
of Trade of Montpelier in Kellogg
Hubbard Library Hall, Friday fore
noon and afternoon. w. c. Cotton of
the Board, Secretary f. e. Gleason
and George e. Megrath with other
members welcomed the out-of-town
guests and kept lively program in
motion and great interest was mani
tested in the eight boxes of tastefully
packed apples, most of which found
market during the day.
The apples exhibited were the box
of Northern Spies that won the sweep
stakes prizes at this years Vermont
Horticultural Show and which retail
at ten cents each and $1.00 dozen in
New York, two boxes of Golden Rus
sets, one of Hubbardtons, one each of
Spitzenburg. Tolman Sweets, Bald
wins. Belleflower, Island Beauties and
oil n,.1y hNvt
Isle Fruit Company of South Hero,
and labeled Sunshine Apples grown
in Champlain Valley with the slogan
Vermont apples will keep. Other
interesting exhibits were color pho
tographs on glass of apple orchards,
trees, etc.
OPENS the Conference.
Secretary Fred f. Gleason opened
the conference at 1890 with a brief
talk on THE Montpelier Board of
Trade and Its Relation to Agricul-
tural Progress" This he said, is
an age of cooperation. That being
true the best results and success Of
this community depends upon the
principle of cooperation with sur
rounding towns. This vicinity has
shown remarkable growth in the pass
few years. With progressive methods
and proper enthusiasm great results
should be expected in the next dec
AIDE.
George W. Perry of South Hero, an
expert in the apple line was called
upon for Modern Methods of Grow
ing and Packing Apples . The APP
pie" he said, lis the most beautiful
fruit in the world-there is such va
riety of shape, such diversity Of col
the most useful fruit in the world and
or, such subtle fragrance. 1t Is also
the most extensive in growth. Hence
it deserves the title king of fruits.
There was a time when candy was
unknown. Then the grocer handed
out sticks of sweetness with his dirty
hands and later packages of candy
were made up for a higher price.
People said the grocer couldn't sell
two cent candy in place Of one cent
confec.ions simply because white pa
per was tied about the morsels which
were thus kept clean, but they did
sell
Cali For Dainty Packages.
To-day there is call for dainty
packages OF everything almost under
the sun except tulnips and potatoes.
We have kept much to the ola situa-
ton in regard to apples. Bran sacks,
meal bags which are not clean, -four
barrels from which flour was rot en-
tirely brushed have been used by the
farmer who had fruit to sell from his
neglected trees. Then came caps OF
thick paper to keep the fruit from
bruises and Innings for the barrels and
boxes, and tissue paper wrappings for
each specimen and these find ready
market. The consumer wants every
apple perfect He doesn't mind the
price of his fruit if it is clean and good
and well put up.
Western enterprise shipped boxes
of apples to the eastern markets when |
were loaded into barrels and shipped
abroad as Vermont apples, simply BE-
cause the consumers liked Vermont APP |
pies and these always came in bar
rels. Apples of ordinary grade will
continue to be packed in barrels, !
doubtless but there is a fancy price |
for the fancy product in the fancy |
package.
Good Apple Growing Climate.
I'VE have climate especially in |
the Champlain and Connecticut val |
ley, which will produce apples Of not |
so fine a texture of skin, perhaps as |,
the apples from irrigated Western |
lands, but with flavor and keeping |
qualities far SURPRISING anything p |
the West. We must do the work they |
do to secure the splendid fruit in set |
ting, the trees, trimming and spraying |
and caring for them as mother for |
a child. They never allow two APP |
pies. If we are not decent we lay the !
ground once week in summer, nor |
do they allow d leaf to grow on the !
ground.
"There apples are not tumbled but !
packed No grower packs his own APP |
pies but the association to which he
belongs sends packers to prepare the |
fruit for market and no inferior APP ,
pie goes in. What do we do in YER /
mont when we want to sell our APP !
pies? We select a few of the best for