The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-04-05
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feeding is rapidly displacing the old time orchard robbery of moving and necessity for the production of good fruit, could not be we'll and econom- ically done three or more times each season on the old high-top trees, de- veioped through more than two cen turfes of neglect, a process of behead- ing or "dehornfng' is now being prac- ticed by taking out from 10 to 25 feet of the central top of each tree, smoothing up and rounding off the edges of all large cuts and painting them heavily, leaving on all lower branches and suckers, cutting out ali dead wood, scraping off the rough bark, then while in dormant condi- tion spraying the tree thoroughly with lime and sulphur to be followed dur ing the growing season with two or three sprayings of self-goiled lime and sulphur to which four pounds of arsenate of lead is added to each 100 gallons of spray mixture. Very old trees so treated put on wonder ous new growth and by thinning out the suckers and shaping the tree a little each year thereafter, broad, low-headed vigorous, productive trees are being made in two or three years out of these old fellows, so that 30 to 40 bushels of high-cla apples per tree are being produced where none grew before.
 Ten thousand young trees in one or chard in New Hampshire and 14,- 900 in my own Connecticut orchards and many orchards of 200 and 30U trees each all over New England are and while l am not able to speak for the others, the fact is that one or my orchards of 12-year- Baldwins being cared for on best modern lines produced three to five barrels per tree this last season. Owing to their be- ing modern low-headed trees go per cent of the fruit was harvested with out the use of ladders of any kind and because of three perfect spray ings 9S per cent. of the fruit was marketable, per cent. of the lowest grade was. good enough to sell at $3 to S3.50 per barrel, 26 per cent. No. ? selling at $5 to s6.50 while 66 per cent. of the entire crop of 5000 bushels graded Al, selling early i'll the winter at s2.5O per 50-pound box at $S per barrel and boxes at s5, re- tailing in fancy fruit stores at 75 cents to S1 per dozen as against 30 cents per dozen for Florida and Calf fornia oranges and 50 to 60 cents for western apples. In shipping these Connecticut apples direct to consum- CTS in twenty-two different states eacn and every one has reported in SUD- stance: Best apples we ever had"
 A recent letter from a wholesale fruit firm in New York who handled Oregon and Washington apples b., the tens of thousand boxes says: "As far as we are concerned can truthful ly say that we have not had any good eating apples until this lot ar rived, for the flavor is simply inn England quality, when for five months past these people have daily had the choicest of Oregon and Wash ington, Jonathan and Spitzenbergen to pick from. This is only mention ed to show What fools we morta!s New England capital have been rush ing to the far West, paying $500 to $500 per acre for apple lands which would have to pay $500 per car freight to reach our markets and sell for less money than the New Eng land apples of quality that can be grown on S25 per acre land and pay less than $50 per car freight to reach the 30,000,00O people living in the northeastern corner of the United States.
 To the conference of New England governors held three years ago, that banquet given to 600 New Englanders of the Boston Chamber of Commerce at the time of the great fruit show in October, 1909 and to Charles M. Cox and his fellow workers on the agricultural committee of the Boston Chamber of Commerce much credit should be given for the intelligent way they are presenting New Eng lands horticultural advantages to those who were blind before. And while few years ago State street was shy of investing in landed operations so near at home, things are changing and the right men can now get all the money they want for it's develop ment.
 Overplanting may never go quite SD far here as it has in the northwest yet I doubt not but what boom or chard companies controlled by ineX- perienced, impractical and possibly interruptions men will no doubt ere long be offering stocks and bonds of their schemes or be working over the old western one of selling orchard tracts to be cared for on the install ment plan-
 Unquestionably there is a field here for legitimate investment in our or chard properties if handled by men of wide experience and strict integrity. However, danger signals should be hung out warning the inexperienced from town and country that good fruits are not to be grown on Easy Street, that money, skill, hard work, love of trees and plants and long pa tient waiting are even more impor- tant factors than our splendid soil, fine climate and superb market condi- tions.
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