St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-09-24

Sp0CS u ucNOtcu 70 COEus wheat, OaIS,
barley, rye, buckwheat, potatoes,
hay, tobacco, maple sugar, apples,
small fruit and vegetables, horses,
sheep, swine, poultry, bee keeping
and forestry.
Apples i'm Vermont
Vermont's opportunities as an
apple growing state are discussed at
considerable length. In an article
prepared for this book Arthur II.
Hill, the well known apple grower of
Isle La Motto, says: with the same
care and attention to details practic-
ed by the far western fruit growers
you can grow better fruit here in
every way at less than one quarter
of the cost. There good orchard
land costs a thousand dollars per
acre up. Here good orchard lands
cost $50 per acre up. 1t costs $500
freight to put a carload of Oregon
or Washington apples into New York
City. 1t costs us here in Vermont
$50 freight on similar carload into
New York" H. w. Collingwood,
editor of the Rural New Yorker is
quoted as saying: eff / were a
younger man today 1 would willing
ly invest every dollar and dime /
could get in hill land in New Eng
land and plant it to an apple or
chard." An Oregon fruit grower is
quoted as saying: I'VE have no hes
itancy in saying that better favored
fruit can be produced in sections
with winters like those of Vermont
than in sections like Oregon and
Washington where the winters are
mild. The cold acts upon the trees
as it does upon the human system
tending to invigorate the tree in
every way and destroying the fungi
and larvae which are injurious to
the tree. Good bearing orchards
range in price from 81, 900 to $4,000
per acre in Washington and Oregon
but this price does not include build
ings. Irrigation is a necessary and
expensive problem to be considered.
What in the west would buy one or
two acres would purchase in the east
an average sized farm with buildings
where irrigation is unnecessary.
We firmly believe that an acre in
the East can be made to clear as
great a profit as an acre in the
West by applying western principles
to fruit growing. 1t is the fasteners
that are making Oregon what it is.
w LILY w IuCy uOI put JulS 0l-
fort to develop their native states
where everything is in favor of fruit
culture
Attention is called to Vermont's
great advantage over the Pacific
coast states in nearness of markets.
1t is shown that within a radius of
500 miles from Montpelier thereisan
urban population exceeding 21,00O,-
600 or at least half the urban pop
ulation of the United States. For
the benefit of those who fear the
danger of over production of apples
attention is called to the fact that
between 1899 and 1909 the apple
crop of this country decreased "a
S75,282 bushels and during the
same decade there was decrease of
so, 471,O0O apple trees. During that
period the population of the coun-
try gained 15,947,691. There was
growth in the apple
canning industry and attention is
called to the possibility with better
system of distribution of food pro-
ducts of vastly increasing the mark
ct for fruit.
Articles are furnished on the ag-
ricuItura1 schools at Randolph and
Lyndon and on the State Agricultural
College. Several pages are devoted
to examples of successful Vermont
farming.