Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-01-18
"VER MONT An APPLE GROWING
STATE"
,I'rom the Landmark.)

Thus reads the title of Bulletin No. H.
just sent out by the State department
of agriculture. II sure Is an apple grow
Ing State. for didn't the White River
' aliey farmer get his dollar AMI a half
n barrel for Northern Spys the past sea-
son and his dollar and seventy five cents
for his 4 Mcintosh Reds? All this was
profit TO the grower except that he paid
a cents for his barrel and 80 cents for
picking The rest was his pay for care
and growing and the hauling to the sta
ton. The middlemen did all the rest and
so ,hilanthropically that to-day the Bos-
ton consumer has only to pay 81 and Sc
for these Vermont grown Northern Spys
and 81 for the Mcintoshcs. Then again
the Vermont farmer or that par, OF him
here in The White River Valley. received
"A cents per lcD pounds for his natural
frui; and windfall> the past autumn.
iyct notwithstanding this generous price
the buyers asked only :. to $50 per
barrel for the best SortinGs sold in New
York city and Boston, Will. the rest
they turnel into pineapple. orange, rasp-
berry currant and other iclles. and
into 81 choice brand Of eVaporato1 ap-
pie. which they are soon to send back
for tie mere nominal sum of Is cents IA
pound with It's sulphur fumes ana Il
| corking picture of Vermont grown
Wolf River apple thrown in free gratis
for nix.
Wrile we are aware tina, 1t ism, good
form To speak of or to suggest means
and methods for hringins the Vermont
producer nearer the Boston consumer.
stance in talking of Vermont as an ap-
ri" growing STATE. and in considcring the
matter seriously The Landmark recalls
the case OF one White River Valley farm
er who i'm tie past season harvested
some 100 barrels OF apples. These he sold
delivered al his local station for Si5D
"a barrel for green oolored varieties and
80 Tor his finest red skinned kinds He
paid (" cents each for his barrels and
the clicking and barrel.ng of the fruit
cost him more than 70 cents a barrel
Tbs man is honest and intelligent and
his fruit was sklilfrll, picked and had
H. gone to Boston and there met the
consumer his receipts wovli have been
something 10 yell about. The only way
lie or any farmer can maze the orchard
pay IA to become q peddlar. The Danes
ana All other 'and!navians. the Dutch,
The Germans, the French. and to a mat
eria! extent the ycomanry Of the Brit
fish empire bay and soil as one man. hut
here in Vermont not cven the suS9es-
ton Of community buyirg and selling
must be made, for fear men Bill would
smut off our appropra ;ion or abolish our
office
That apple orchard planted in the
White River Valley ten or even Is years
ago has no: paid The profit the land
would had it been planted to the run of
farm oN'ps, Al least cne-haf the trees
are long since dead from injuries made
by Wild deer Ulat animal that so de
lights tic heart Of men Iill as we watch
II gainbo'inG on the green. provided the
gree. IL somebody slsos land): and many
OF inc remaining trees are permanently
injured. Of course We mean this speak
ing from commercial viewpoint; con
sidertd as II family orchard tho case is
different.
u - ditncult to understand how n
N"uhn apple tree - going to yield
pfoiit "n"n II * sooner or later killed
ny u "eer. sure there is the right OF
III" solemn inquest hold by the 'intelli-
gent ana astute' game warden who has
''iue W ibWU 1T inc rate Of two fifty
per day and expenses. ana who in order
to reach conclusion as TO whether the
tree. two, three or four years old was
worth 80 cents or - cents, must first
put the owner OF land and tree through
the third degree Sometimes, howe, er.
a farmer can. have lot OF sport with an
intclIicsnt" game warden. In the White
River Valley Is farmer who once had
an apple tree killed by deer. In his rage
he called In a game warden. He and an.
other official came they held but 1.
short inquest and decided to give the
farmer $50. The combined pay and ca
penses of the officials exceeded 500
While IN the little orchard the farmer
called attention 10 another tree with
big rent on its trunk which the farmer
told the 'inteligent" officials WAS made
by deer They promptly awarded him
another $50 but this he declined to az
cept much to their surprise. The truth
was the farmer had lied, for this par
ticuiar rent was the RESULT Of sun blight
following 4 season Of severe freezing.