St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1916-11-15
new ENGLAND
FRUIT SHOW
Annual Exhibition of Society Open
ed At Montpelier Tuesday
Evening
STATE GIVES WELCOME
Vermont Horticultural Society Observ-
ing Its 21St AnniverSaFy-Verm
Apples Now Recognized, Says q.
b. Aitkins-An Address On
Marketing Fruit.

Montpelier, Nov. 1.-THE first New
England fruit show to be held in Yer
mont began this evening in City hall
in connection with the goth annual
meeting of the Vermont State Horti-
cultural society. The storm of last
night which continued until noon to-
day interferred with the attendance.
Although there was a very satisfactory
crowd present.
The floor of the auditorium is given
up to the exhibition of apples and on
the banks and tables, which run the
length of the auditorium, are shown
at least 125 varieties of native fruit
with 80 exhibitors. This makes the
largest New England fruit show ever
held. Vermont is represented with 40
exhibitors and the remaining new
England states are represented with
approximately the same number OF
exhibitors. The Connecticut Agricul-
turaI college at Storrs, Conn, exhibits
Sc varieties of apples and the state OF
Connecticut is making a fine display,
including 10 varieties, through the
Connecticut Pathological society. Thls
exhibit fills 35 cases and was trans
ported from Hartford, Conn, to Mont
pelier by auto truck.
At o'clock Gov. Charles w. Gates
welcomed both organizations and Wis
itors to the state of Vermont. James
3. Estee. president of the Montpelier
Board of Trade, extended a welcome
on the part of the city of Montpelier.
E. H. West of Dorset, president of
the Vermont Horticultural society, re-
sponded on behalf of his organization
He said in part:
Growth of the Society.
1.-The Vermont society is celebrating
its 21st birthday in a manner most
pleasing to its members. From a mod
est beginning, we have grown until our
mem bership is now about 500. What
we hope and expect to do is TO put
Vermont on the horticultural map. We
have every natural advantage with our
geographical location, cheap lands,
low freight rates to the greatest mark
cts of the world, but up 10 date, there
are only a few growers in the state
that are practicing scientific apple
culture. These few, however, have
demonstrated the wonderful fruit
growing possibilities of much of our
land"
Responding on behalf of the New
England fruit show, George D. Aiken,
vice-president of that organization
said in part:
"A few years ago, Mr.. George w.
Perry. then president of the Vermont
Horticultural society. right here III
this hall, gave us a motto. That mot
to is, Boom the apple, and the apple
will boom Vermont
we began booming the apple, but
for three years, no answering boom
was heard. Last year at the New
England fruit show, in Boston, the
Vermont apple gave a boom that was
heard all over New England. The
Vermont exhibit that went down there
came home with SO ribbons, or more
than all the other states combined,
except Massachusetts, which natural
ly got more, being right on the spot.
Tonight the Vermont apple and other
New England apples are giving
boom which will be heard across the
continent.
"Now here at this meeting, let Us
start to boom the New England apple
and in two or three years, that boom
will be heard across the Rocky noun
tains, and the people there will hear
it and understand that it means that
they can no longer send their inferior
quality apples into the markets under
our very noses and get the price per
box that we get per barrel"
Fruit Growers Must Cooperate
The principal speaker of the eve
ming was Hon. Wilfred Wheeler of
Boston. secretary of the Massachusetts,
State Board of Agriculture. His sub
horticultural
Products" and he spoke in brief as
follows:
"The problems of agriculture today
is one of production of large quantities
of special crops in large areas and
marketing through organization. The
East has seen the West capture its
markets. It has done this through
large production and through efficient
organization. As a result the West has
forced the East to organize and we
must organize with uniform product,
a uniform package and uniform meth
DDS of selling.
Massachusetts, produces $4,000
600 worth of agricultural products
annually and consumes $3.50, 100000
worth of these products. 1t is not a
question with us of disposal of prod
ucts. but question of how to dispose
of them and I may say that most or
ganizations for disposal of crops be-
gin at the wrong end"
Mr.. Wheeler then went into the de-
tail of growing crops the purchase of
supplies, farm management, credit IA
cilities, question of manager, question
of marketing, the disposal of surplus,
machinery on the farm, and the pack