The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-11-15
Vermont Fruit Culture.
burlington Free Press. J

burlington L rec 1reSS.
One of the most successful crops of Yer
mont farms today, considering the expen-
diture of time and labor and money in
volved, is without question our harvest of
fruit Our people in many instances are
coming to realize this, and the results are
shown in the tremendous strides taken in
connection with the improvement of our
apple crop and the marketing thereof.
Many people are discouraged because so
long a period is required to grow an or
chard, holding that one generation must
work for the next. True, you cannot set
out an apple tree one year and harvest a
/ barrel of apples from it the following year.
1t is possible, however, for people to start
an apple orchard and enjoy the fruit them
selves. City Clerk Grandy of Burlington |
is boasting these days of enjoying a large |
harvest of fruit from apple trees he set /
out not so many years ago, and he has old |
fruit in good condition when it is time to |
begin picking new apples. \ host of people /
Throughout the state can tell of similar eX-
Iperiences.
For d long time Vermont produced APP
piles, but the great majority of our people |
had no idea how to sell their product, so
that Vermont apples went begging, An
excellent hint of the transformation which
has taken place in this connection is fur
nished by the Bennington Banner, which
says:
The value OF advertising IS illustrated IN
the demand for Vermont apples in and
around Boston as the result of the showing
made by Vermont apple growers at the
New England exhibit two weeks ago. 1t
was pleasing to Vermont patriotism to
have Vermont apples win the leading place
o at this exhibit, and it is even more crafty
ing to Vermont business instinct to find
that there is an ample market for Vermont
e fruit so near at hand ready to take the
+ surplus apples as soon as it is shown that
they are of the highest quality. 1t costs
little more to grow a high grade of apples
than it does to raise an inferior crop while
e the income from the better quality is
2. easily twice as much as it is from fruit of
a mediocre standard.
= Some idea how these gratifying results
were brought about is furnished by a let
{ ter from George d. Aiken of Putney to
d Walter H Crockett of the Vermont pub
n liicty bureau. We are sure every prospec-
g. tive fruit grower in Vermont will profit
from some of the suggestions made.
II Mr. Aiken says that during one evening
a alone 5000 Vermont apples were distrib-
O. uted at the Boston exhibition, and the fol-
G. lowing morning the newspapers had gener-
- Gus descriptions of the Vermont fruit ex-
- hibit and praise for the Green Mountain
IS apples.
As might be expected the excellent inn
preston made by Vermont apples increased
not only the demand for Green Mountain
oI fruit, but ALSO for the Green Mountain
d, farms that can produce such splendid fruit.
@. Mr.. Aiken says he talked with the secre-
o tary of a Boston concern, who wanted d
Vermont farm, and he thinks it safe to say
III that Vermont has already gained six new
Of bo
so Using done in connection with the fruit
III show in Boston. An element which helps
:, to make these lands more attractive is Y err
monts legislation in relation to the exemp-
OF ton of orchards.
IT The fruit growers of Vermont have every
:, reason for qualification in the fact that the
Green Mountain state won more prize mon
- ey than Maine, New Hampshire or Con
he necticut Out of five leading varieties Yer
re mont won first prizes on all but one.
al The possibilities of fruit culture in Yer
- mont are well illustrated by the experience
uo of barrow and Aiken In 1912 they
ISIS bought an old pasture and began thereon
ad variegated fruit culture. They now have
"A u acres of red raspberries, four acres o
, blackberries, one and one-half acres o
rs currants and gooseberries, four acres o
lot Strawberries and half an acre of cherries
le- besides other fruit.
nj In 1911 this old pasture rented for 81 OF
: per acre. In 1915 the two-year raspberrie
i . produced $500 per acre. While the berr,
bushes were in process of development cab
-. bages were grown as an inter-crop
does not require much figuring to realiz
ey the handsome profit which this old pastur
be is being made to produce for the energeti
roo and intelligent men who have converted
-, into veritable gold mine, and better, 70
oh the example can be followed by others wit
de- further revenue for Vermont as a result
Did Some people complain of lack of market
.oo but this problem is solved in two ways b
publicity for fruit and the working up G
ne, surplus fruit into a jam kitchen, so tina
no berries can be put up fresh from the fielc
mo A ready market is found for all fres
old fruit rule, but after a storm the be-
:. ries are too soft to ship and accordingly al
al converted into jam.
in 1t is worth noting in this connection tina