A COMPARISON OF VERMONT WITH OTHER APPLE PRODUCING AREAS 



An Apple Tree Survey was conducted In 1957 by the Extension Service, 

 University of Vermont in cooperation with the U.S.D.A. Agricultural Marketing 

 Service. Table 1, which appears on the next page, was prepared by Prof. C. 

 Lyman Calahan, Extension Horticulturalist, University of Vermont, and it 

 shows the size of the Vermont Apple Industry and how it compares with some 

 other apple areas. It can be noted that there are 86 apple orchards in 

 Vermont as compared with 371 in Massachusetts. The smallest orchard reported 

 in the Vermont survey had 117 trees. The Massachusetts Apple Orchard Survey 

 was on a similar basis in the orchards with 100 or more apple trees vjere 

 surveyed. 



The percentage of trees of various varieties in Vermont in comparison with 

 those in Massachusetts is shown in Table 2. 



Table 2 - The Percentage of Trees of Various Varieties in: 



Vermont 



Massachusetts 



Mcintosh 



Baldwin 



Red Delicious 



Cortland 



Early Mcintosh 



Others 



48.6 

 14.1 

 10.8 

 7.7 

 3.1 

 15.7 



About 95 per cent of the Baldwin trees in Massachusetts are 10 years old 

 and over and about 7 3 per cent of the Northern Spy trees in Vermont are 28 

 years or older. The non-bearing tree population indicates that Red Delicious 

 will be the second leading variety in both Massachusetts and Vermont in the 

 future. 



Vermont has storage capacity for 457,500 bushels of apples 44,000 of 

 which is CA storage. 



The average apple crop for Vermont for 1945-1954 in comparison with the 

 other New England States is sho\m in Table 3. 



Table 3 - '^'^New England Apple Production, by States, 



State 



Average for 1945-1954 



Massachusetts 

 Connecticut 

 New Hampshire 

 Maine 

 Vermont 

 Rhode Island 



2,276,000 

 1,191,000 

 890,000 

 862,000 

 782,000 

 160,000 



Source: Crop Reporting Service, United States Department of Agriculture. 



William J. Lord 



