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per acre UP. 1t costs six hundred
dollars freight to put a carload of Ore
gon or Washington apples into New
York city. 1t costs us here In Yer
mcnt fifty dollars freight on similar
carload into New York" H, w. Col-
lingwood, editor of the Rural New
Yorker is quoted as saying III
were d young man today would will,
ingiy invest every dollar and dime !
could get in hill land In New Eng
land and plant It to an apple orchard
An Oregon fruit grower is quoted as
saying: 1--WE have no hesitancy in
saying that better favored fruit can
be produced in sections with Winters
like those OF Vermont than in sec
lions Ike Oregon and Washington
where the winters are mild. Thecold
acts upon the trees as it does upon
the human system tending to invigo-
rate the tree in every way and deg-
troying the fungi and larvae which
are Injurious to the tree. Good bear
ing orchards range in price from 81
600 TO $4,000 per acre in Washington
and oregon but this price does not IN
clude buildings. Irrigation Is neces
sary and expensive problem to be con
sidered. What in the West would
buy one or two acres would purchase
in the East an average sized farm
with buildings where irrigation is UNI
necessary. We firmly believe that
an acre in the East can be made 70
clear as great profit as an acre in
the West by applying western princi-
pies to fruit growing. Ii is the east
erners that are making Oregon what
1t is. Why do they not put forth this
effort to develop their naive states
where everything is in favor of frult
culture"
Attention is called Vermonts great
advantage over the Pacific coast
states in nearness to markets. 1t is
shown that within a radius of 500
miles from Montpelier there is an ur.
ban population exceeding 2l,000,000
or at least half the urban population
of the United States. For the benefit
of those who fear the danger OF over
production of apples attention is call
ed TO the fact that between 1899 and
1909 the apple crop of this country
decreased 24,S75,2S2 bushels and dur
ing the same decade there was a de
crease of 50,47l 600 apple trees. Dur
ing that period the population of the
country gained 15,947 691. There was
a remarkable growth in the apple can
ming industry and attention is called
to the possibility with a better sys-
tenn of distribution of food products
of vastly increasing the market for
fruit.
Articles are furnished on the agri-
cultural schools at Randolph and l.yn-
don and on the State Agricultural
college. Several pages are devoted
to examples of successful Vermont
farming.
The text closes with the following
paragraph: This book opened with
the question, What inducements can
Vermont' offer an ambitious. vide
awake farmer to settle in the Green
Mountain State? That portion OF
the book following this question is
devoted almost entirely to an attempt
to answer It. Whether the question
has been answered Satisfactorily or
unsatisfactory. whether the showing
made FOR the state is good, bad pr IN
different, are matters which must be
left to the judgment of the indirslaai
reader. A few facts stand out SO
clearly that they cannot well De ohal
lenged. The fertility of the soil OF
Vermont Is indicated BY report of
crop yields made by the United
States government, covering period
of more than forty years, which show
that very few states in the Union equal
Vermont in the average yield per
acre of staple crops or in the average
price received from the same. Yer.
mont's proximity to markets requires
only y rudimentary knowledge of ge-
ography TO demonstrate. The compar-
atively low price of Vermont farm
lands, coupled with the grea, agricul.
tural opportunities of the state, GER
tainly furnish inducements that no
prospective purchaser of farm can
afford TO ignore. There is money to
be made and comfort 70 be enjoyed
| in farming in Vermont"