St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1916-11-22
CAN COMPETE
WITH WORLD
The Vermont Apple Needs Proper
Choice of Variety and Care In
Production
CROWDS AT FRUIT SHOW
Strawberries Picked In The Snow
Tuesday On Exhibition at Mont
pelier-Great Orchards of Ben
ningtOn Make Large Exhibits
Practical Speeches.
Especial to The CALIFORNIAN. }


Montpelier, Nov. 15-When the
words, with proper choice of variety
and proper care, Vermont can com.
pete with the world in apple growing
were spoken, the audience in attend
ance of the New England fruit show
this morning burst into loud and con-
tinued applause. The speaker was
DR.. ]. K. Shaw of the Massachusetts,
college at Amherst.
The second day of the New Eng.
land fruit show and annual meeting
of the Vermont Horticultural society
opened this forenoon with a large at
tendance and increased throughout the
day till the auditorium was crowded
in the evening.
A little exhibit that has attracted
much attention is two boxes of straw
berries picked Tuesday on the farm
of E. w. Aiken in Putney, during a
snow storm. An interested spectator
today from out of the state was Albert
r. jerks of the Hampden County I'm
provement league of Springfield, who
came as the representative of Joshua
L. Brooks, president of the Eastern
States Agricultural and Industrial ex.
position Mr.. jerks pronounced the
fruit show the best that had ever beer,
assembled.
President Estee of the Montpelier
board of trade received word this af-
ternoon from Col. Ira L. Reeves, pres
ident of Norwich university that the
student body of that institution would
visit the fruit show tomorrow, arriv-
ing at one o'clock on a special train.
Mayor James M. Boutwell,, the city
council and L. A. Kelly, secretary,
representing the Montpelier board of
trade are to meet the train on it's ar
rival and escort the students to the
City hall.
Among some of the more conspicu-
Gus and attractive apple exhibits are
those made by the orchards of Ben
nington, which has $4,000 trees, most
of which are in bearing, G. B. With
erelI of Middlebury, the Eastern Fruit
and Nut Orchard company of Grand
Isle and Wright A. Root of East
Hampton, Mass. The proceedings of
the Horticultural society began this
forenoon with an address and demon
stration on 1.-THE Apple Box and How
to Fill It," by Hon A. j. Eaton of
South Royalton, who spoke briefly as
follows:
1.-THE mission of the box is to force
the grower to produce better fruit.
The Western apple has made the box
famous, not the box has made the
Western apple famous, No one should
use boxes who is unwilling to take
pains. The public will accept almost
anything in a barrel, for they are
used to it, but they want and expect
good stuff in a box. The package and
the packing are too expensive for or
binary fruit. Thousands of barrels OF
apples have been sold this season at
from $500 to $500 each, while boxes
have been selling at $1.00 to $500"
Mr.. Eaton followed his address with
a packing demonstration.
DR.. J. K. Shaw spoke on Varieties
of Apples and Prof. w. T. Macoun.
Dominion horticulturist, of Ottawa,
Canada. spoke on Some Aspects of
Fruit Growing in Canada"
In the evening DR.. ]. H. Gourley of
the New Hampshire experiment sta
ton spoke.
Two carloads of students from Wat
erbury, the parochial school Of the
city and the student body of Montpel-
Ter seminary visited the show during
the day.