Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-17
New England Apples Be-
ing Shown IL Boston,
Fine Exhibit by Boston Cham.
| -ber Of Commerce.
Chambers Committee on Agricu!.
? ture Urges Specialized Farming.

New England grown apples, larg.
and rosy and with a flavor that grow
ers 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.
The exhibit is drawing crowds
daily, and many persons are taking
away copies of the report on The Flu
turc of the New England Farm" issued
by the Chambers Committee on
Agriculture. In connection with this
apple exhibit. the Chamber has post
ed signs giving convincing statistics
Of the profits that growers in all six
of the New England States are max
ing.
AS a 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
i'm a great variety of sections, many
instances of positive success, where
farmers particularly those who
specialize. are really making money,
and Il good deal Of money, today. The
committee has especially investigated
apple raising, and found that there
seems to be no question that all the
New England states has successful or
chards. but that these are scattered.
For instance. farmer in Charlotte.
Vermont, on 100 acres of apples has
received a gross income of $4,000 in
1909. which. estimating his expenses
to be about $4,000, shows a net margin
of about $4,000. He writes also that
40 acres of this orchard has not yet
come to it's full maturity and he ex-
poets better figures later on.
Undoubtedly the leading orchardiSt
in New England is ]. H. Hale of So.
Glastonbury, Conn, who has in all
about 80 acres Of peaches and apples.
From one orchard of $50 acres OF
peaches, in 1909 Mr. Hale has re-
ccived gross income of $4,000. while
from another of his farms, located in
Seymour. Conn. he has received this
years from 10 acres of apples $4,000
Mr.. Hale has also an orchard of 1000
acres of peaches in Georgia. Mr.
Hale owes his success to specializing
He is business man with a thor
oughly equipped office-bookkeepe
and stenogra pher. He is man of
considerable leisure-one who devotes
a large part of his time to matters of
public welfare: and it is from his
farm that the Chambers committee on
agriculture has obtained the finest
specimens OF fruit. He packs his fruit
in boxes, each apple or peach being
wrapped in paper; both paper and
boxes bearing his brand. He has also
developed the sale of his goods in
nearby markets, finding sale in Con-
necticut for almost all the fruit which
he raises.
Among other instances of con-
spicuous success in fruit raising which
have come to the notice of the COM
mittee, may be mentioned the peach
farm of John A. Martin of Wellington,
Conn.,, containing some IS acres. from
which on the last crop a gross income,
was received of $17,500.
There are numerous instances Of
very successful apple raising on both
large and small scales. For instance,
the town of Buckfield. Maine, has
shipped over 10000 barrels of apples
in 1909 while the value of apples
shipped from Shelburne Falls, Mass.
on this crop is 100000.
Speaking of exports. the committee
have been informed by William A.
Taylor, field pomologist of the Depart
ment of Agriculture i'm Washington.
that OF all the apples exported to
Europe from this country, 30 per cent.
arc raised in New Enkland. 1t is evil
dent that if New England agriculture
is properly advertised the value of our
farm lands will increase, for informa-
ton has come from the Secretary 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
reasonable to suppose that the west
crn farmer will look toward the East
in the very near future, rather than
pay the extremely high prices for
western land. If we could do one
fourth as we'll in advertising our New
England opportunities as the West has
i'm advertising there would be a sharp
demand for our farms here in the
East.
Cranberry raising on Cape Cod Of
ferS luStdICeS Oh OtleT very SUCCESSFUL
agricultural efforts in the East. This
Industry has progressed wonderfully
during the last decade, so that there
are now a number of stock companies
which are carrying it on profitably.
1t may not be known to every read
er that there is little section of
Massa chusetts where the raising Of
onions is carried to a very profitable
point. A group of about four or five
towns in and about Sunderland and
North Hadley produce more than 1000
cars of onions per year, the yield be-
ing from 500 to 500 bushels per acre.
Land in this section is worth 5000 per
acre. and is being rapidly settled by
Poles and other foreigners who find
profit in that industry
or course everyone knows of the
success of tobacco raisers in the Con-
necticut Valley. both in Massachusetts
and Connecticut. Farmers in this
section have adopted modern methods.
spending enormous sums every year
in fertilizers. raising tobacco both in
the open and under CLOTH and are in
a generally prosperous condition. 1t
is the intention of the Boston Cham
bor of Commerce TO pnpOYI~aop any