The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-03-03

siderations. Provision should be made
for culinary and dessert use, seasonal sue
cession including a liberal supply Tor WIN
ter needs, and for team cultivation ana
| spraying so that the work may he done
| at the minimum expense,
| Proper location is important, Let the
| family orchard be located conveniently e.
the house; let the soil be deep, wen
drained, and fairly fertile; let the land he
capable OF good tillage, and possess gentle
| slope eastward or westward; and above
all select an elevated rather than DE-
pressed area.
Select many varieties Of good quality
and from the family fayoritesi have some
early, few medium and liberal supply
for winter use-oulinary as well as dessert
Plant stone fruits, pome fruits and small
fruits in quantity 10 suit family needs
Lay out the orchard on an ablong area
that team work may be utilized IN cult.
waiting and spraying, Long rows, even u
composed of three sorts OF fruits. are
time and strength savers, Small fruits may
be grown between rows or IN the rows
of tree fruits il the land is limited IN eN'
tent. Aim to give the best of care. Guilt
yate the soil, prunc and spray the trees,
and there will be a crop to harvest. Pro
vide suitable storage by having cool,
sweet, and moderately dry room Tor fruit;
Without good storage, half the labor OF
summer goes for naught.'
Harvesting and Marketing Apples was
the topic OF G.. w Perry OF Chester DE
pot, and in the course OF his remarks the
speaker said This fruit has generally
been picked carelessly, in many cases
shaken from the trees, left in barrels on
brought TO market in bags, often in very
bad shape Now we are beginning tn un.
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fine packing and intelligent marketing. The
fruit should be picked as carefully as II
eggs were being handled never shaken from
the trees or turned from baskets into bar
rels. II should be carried into cool stor.
age in cellars or other places, handled
with the utmost care m the repacklng
and transported on spring wagons, whether
on the farm or ON the road.
'The barrels or boxes IN which II Is
packed should be lined and cushioned and
in every way should be made as fine as
possible This lining and cushioning costs
nothing as IL takes the place OF more than
its value OF fruit Great damage is done
TO the apple business by fraudulent pack
ing largely induced by the buyers repre-
sensations The mddlcman is largely Ia
blame for apples being thus packed rs
he will pay more for the same fruit thus
packed than he will for that honestly
packed. The only remedy is to require
the name OF the grower or packer on
every package, as is done in Canada. Why
should we pack our best apples ON top
and poor ones in the middle? We do
not pack potatoes beans or butter thus.
The apple is the king Of fruits, but We
treat il like beggar; we let it shift for
our tables rather than loving care"
The Trade in Young Cows, by Prof Il. |
NJ. Washburn OF the state experiment |
station was also full of interest lie said !
"Daiying is very properly the principal |
farm industry IN this state. There are
many thousands OF acres OF hillside grass
which can very properly be converted into |
money through the medium OF milk, yet
these large tracts of pasture lands are
largely in back towns where the sale OF
milk as such is entirely impracticable be.
cause OF distance from the railroad. ! /
am firmly convinced that the time has
arrived when the farmers in many such
back towns should get together and seri-
Dusly consider the proposition OF co-ope.
rative community breeding of one breed.
They should choose a breed which will
produce most salable young cows, and
raise heifer calves and develop them and
breed them to meet the demands of the
market. When this is done, they can ad.
lertise and sell collectively with less labor
md usually at higher prices than if each
armer sold independently While thus
converting the otherwise yalueless rough
ge into cows to be sold to distinctive milk
PRODUCERS near the railroad, these back
own farmers can also find excellent profit
n the manufacture of butter, which often
inds ready market with these same milk
farmers. In fact, a combination
Jack town business would be the produc.
ion of cows and butter and pork to sell
o those farmers who are shipping away
heir entire product and who therefore
annot probably produce these things for