The Penn's Grove record., 1923-07-27
Fruit Growers
Hold Conference
Great Developments In Apples
And Grapes Around
GlaSSbOrO

nesday. About 500 were present from
all parts of New Jersey and other
States.
At II o'clock the party started on a
15-miles tour thru the apple and peach
orchards and vineyards in the region
around Glassboro. 1t took an hour
and a half and was a wonderful sight
to those who do not know the great
developments made in fruit growing
in the past twenty-five years. Some of
the orchards and vineyards seen were
as follows:
S. H. Stanger's sons, 143 acres of
apples.
Albert F. Repp, 60 acres of winesap
apples. =,
Eleven acres of concord grapes,
owned by Volney B. Handle.
Charles F. Repp fruit farm, 30
acres of winesaps.
S. H. Stanger's sons, paragon,
staymens and winesaps.
Glassboro Orchard Company, fruit
farm.
Albert T. Repp's new development
fruit farm from stump land.
r. T. Necouch fruit farm.
The Repp Co., 70 acres of Carmen
peaches.
Cooperative investigation work of
New Jersey Experiment Station,
Gloucester County Farm Bureau CO.
operating, on apples, peaches and
grapes
Test Plots Bureau of insecticides
and fungicides, U. S. D. A.
Wesley Brown Fruit Farms, 400
acres.
New Jersey Fruit Company Farms
of 450 acres.
Z Repp Co. winesap apple orchard,
one mile long.
N. J. Fruit Co. farms where to-
bacco stems are used as top dressing.
John Rebel fruit farm.
Joseph McCarron fruit farm.
DR.. Franklin Clifford, 25 acres con-
cord grapes.
J. Ward Heritage, go acres of fruit:
Repp Co.'S 40 acres of Hlley Bell
peaches and 25 acres of concord
grapes.
VIM. C. Evans fruit farm.
Largest cold storage warehouse Tor
apples in New Jersey. Capacity 25O,-
900 bushels.
Ice Manufacturing Plant with John
Repp Ice & Cold Storage Co, coid
storage buildings; capacity, 35Oo tons.
Largest apple juice and vinegar
manufacturing plant south OF Iren,
ton. 100000 pounds of apples used
annually during cider making season;
After the tour, luncheon was served
bv the ladies of the Methodist Church:
At 1.30 about thousand assembled
in the auditorium of the new Normal
School building and listened TO ad-
dresses on timely topics OF plants,
their pests and remedies.
Frank r. Stanger, Mayor of Glass
boro. gave the audience of about
thousand a hearty welcome and told
how South Jersey farmers had learned
to grow apples and to keep them IN
cold storage until the market would
take them at profit. He SAID the
farmers in New Jersey have learne.dl
to take more wealth from the SOIL
than is taken in gold, silver and cop
per in twenty States. Agriculture
leads all industries. Gloucester County
stands third in the United States. !.
Charles F. Repp, vice president OF
the State Horticultural Society, told
how his father developed into
grower of apples. When he was
boy his mother was pairing apples 10
make a pie All he got to eat was
the parings. He told her that
when he got to be man he would
grow apples enough for himself and
BOYS to eat, and they would not have
to eat the parings only.
After his pioneer fruit farm was
established there came time when
the fruit was not worth gathering.
There was an abundance at the tlme
they ripened and then for months
none could be had. So they got the
idea of building a refrigerator plant
so apples could be kept. The first
plan was a room with ice packed
around it. Comparatively few apples
could be stored at that time as there
was no ice making machinery. The
Repp cold storage plant was increas.
ed in 1914 so it now holds 25O, 900
bushels of apples, making. it possible
to have apples every day in the year.
Mr.. Repp said that orchards are
now growing on 5000 acres in the
region of Glassboro and that 200 car
loads of peaches would be shipped
from that region this year.
The Repps were the first to spray
trees with hand pump in 1884, and
used the first power pump in 1898;
State Senator Jones, of Pennsylva-
MIA, told briefly how the farmers had
been benefited by the Federal Loans
Bank.
Prof. Arthur J. Farley, Horticul-
turalist. at State College, New Bruns-
wick told of the operation of dry
lime and sulphur used as a spray
Because of changing atmospheric con-
ditions it was not as successful as wet
spray. The benefit of spraying was
seen not only in fruit trees from m
sect injuries, but in the quallty an9 d
size of the fruit. Fifty-hv.e spraye,u e,
apples filled a basket, while II TOOK
95 unsprayed of the same variety;
tomologist, whose specially is insects, Ecu :