16 Second Annual Report 



I shall not dwell very long upon the subject of growing 

 the fruit, and shall make my remarks as far as I can along the 

 line of production of apples, because the rules that apply to apple 

 production will apply to most any other fruit that we grow in 

 Vermont, and having more practical experience in apple pro- 

 duction, I feel more at home along that line. 



I want to say there are many things to encourage the farmers 

 of Vermont to grow apples, more than the dollars that come 

 from the sale of the apples or other fruit, the attraction to the 

 home, beautifying Vermont;, its already beautiful scenery, land- 

 scape gardening. Vv^e have some very fine landscape gardening; 

 of course the orchards were bare once ; the trees were put there, 

 the work of man ; somebody mUst have worked out these plans 

 to get the subjects from which these pictures were taken that 

 adorn the walls of this hall. We must make Vermont more 

 attractive so that the city people with the money and leisure may 

 come and enjoy themselves in our various localities, some on 

 the lakes, some in the mountains, and all over. If we can 

 beautify our farms, the landscape, by nice orchards, nice straight 

 rows of apple trees, apple trees that are round in shape, nicely 

 formed, trim them up so they will be fine in appearance, so 

 the sun will reach the tips of the limbs and the center of the tree, 

 so the mildew cannot touch the fruit ; all this gives profit to 

 the farmer,, and attracts the attention of the city people and the 

 travelling public, whether by train, automobile, or however they 

 are attracted in that direction, they will come again. They feel 

 like going into those orchards and looking them all over ; there 

 is that something in horticulture that attracts everyone. 



Every Vermont farmer should become interested in beau- 

 tifying his farm ; making it more attractive to himself and others. 

 When we set out a nice apple orchard we are setting something 

 that is to remain for two, three or four generations ; it is not alone 

 for ourselves ; we are not the only ones who are to look upon 

 it ; but indeed, the people who are setting orchards now are 

 doing a work that those of the next and succeeding generation 

 will reap benefits from. We know of young people now who 

 are getting immense incomes from their apple orchards, which 

 were planted by their fathers and grandfathers. There is noth- 

 ing more enduring, nothing from which benefits will more surely 

 result, than an apple orchard in the State of Vermont. 



I want to call your attention to the practical value in dollars 

 and cents in the apple crop. We think that apples are very low, 

 but the profit from the a])ple orchard, thoroughly cared for. will 

 be greater than the profit of any other agricultural interest in 

 Vermont. If we consider it commercially, saying it cost $i 

 per barrel to deliver at the railroad platform, and if we can get 



