THE APPLES OF NEW YORK 



PROFESSOR S. A. BEACH 

 Horticulturist, State College of Agriculture, Ames, Iowa 



(Formerly horticulturist at the New York Agricultural Experiment Station 

 and author of "The Apples of Xt'\v York.") 



Apples constitute the most important 

 fruit crop of the Empire State. They are 

 grown to a greater or less extent in nearly 

 all of the farming regions from Montauk 

 Point to the Niagara liiver and from 

 Kouses Point to Chautauqua Lake. They 

 are found on nearly every farm and also 

 about many of the homes in the smaller 

 cities, towns, villages and suburban dis- 

 tricts. Every year they yield a delicious, 

 appetizing and healthful article of food 

 for all classes of people at moderate ex- 

 pense, and at the same time give to a large percentage of the agri- 

 cultural population profitable employment for capital and labor, 

 and to the state a desirable diversification of its agricultural in- 

 dustries. 



New York is unexcelled in the abundance, variety, and excel- 

 lence of the apples which it produces. If all the apple trees of 

 New York were wiped out of existence so that the people would 

 be compelled to secure their supplies of this fruit from other 

 states and from foreign countries, apples would become a high- 

 priced luxury. New Yorkers would then begin to appreciate as 

 never before this queen of fruits, and the place which it fills in 

 their agricultural and domestic economy. But with apples so 

 common as they now are, their real worth is altogether too lightly 

 esteemed. 



The constant increase of population, the development of trans- 

 portation and other facilities, with the more general adoption of 

 improved methods of grading, picking and marketing, may 

 naturally be expected to result in a constantly increasing demand 

 for good New York apples at remunerative prices. A survey of 



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