1855, 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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the value of " home manufactures," for this county I more, or better, or newer varieties of trees; con- 

 as S3G,330; nor do we find any other item under jsequentiy he urycd that the business should be 

 which this matter of labor on shoes at home can 

 be comprehended in the census tables. Now the 



population of this county is set down, in the same 

 census, at 49,13-i, and if the " home manufacture.-^ '' 

 of the rest of the county are in the same propor- 

 tion to the population as those of Candia and Deer- 

 field, they would amount to about one mUlion six 

 hundred thousand, insteeid of the thirty-six thousand 

 dollars credited to us! The former amount is un- 

 doubtedly much n.arer to the truth than the lat- 

 ter. Whatever the result might be, on investiga- 

 tion, it is certain that the towns upon which the 

 calculations are based are not generally reputed to 

 be engaged in manufactures above the average of 

 their neighbors. 



It might be well for gentlemen at the South and 

 West, w!io wonder how the people can live in New 

 England, to inquire enough into our afFciirs to re- 

 lieve themselves of any unhappiness on our ac- 

 count. It might be well, also, when the next cen- 

 sus is taken, to have it done in such a manner as 

 to furnish some indication, at least, of the resources 

 of New England, as well as the rest of the country. 

 There seems to have been no attempt to ascertain 

 the manufiictures of any part of the United States, 

 except of " home-made " articles, and what that 

 item includes is not very manifest. 



In this view, we have something to do with " oth- 

 er people's busine-'s." 



Exeter, X. II. Dec. 12, 1854. 



the 



ORCHARDS, APPLES, AND THE 

 MARKET. 



" David, I am going to quit the nursery business. 

 In twenty-one years fruit will be a drug in New 

 York city. Why, everybody is setting out orchards. 

 Just look around this neighborhood. There is dea- 

 con Jones has just set out 500 trees; Tom Smiih 

 400, and his brother Jim will have 1000 next 

 spring, and soon, at that rate, all over the country ; 

 grafted fruit, too, none of it for cider. Now what 

 do you suppose is to become of all these apples ? 

 I tell you what it is, David, we must wind up the 

 nursery business, or we shall break Hat. Every- 

 body is going crazy about fruit. Everybody will 

 grow it, but nobody buy it, a few years hence." 



This prognostication was made moie than twen- 

 ty years ago, by a sensible man engaged in prop- 

 agating choice fruits for sale, in Central New York, 

 and no doubt the speaker honestly believed the 

 days of the nurseryman were well nigh numbered. 

 Brother David, however, was of a diifer.'nt opin- 

 ion, lie did not believe it was so easy to overstock 

 the market with such fruit as no other than Amer- 

 ican soil and climate can produce. He did not be- 

 lieve ere twenty years' time would elapse, every 

 body would have an orchard, the products of whid 

 •would be so unsalable, and the business so unprofi 

 table, the owner could have no desire to plant 



perseveringly continued until the dawning of 

 evil day was more visible in the horizon. 



What has been the result? A sale of 40,000 

 apples trees and 7,000 of odier fruits, during the 

 planting season of last year, and the prospect for 

 the next equally good. The very men who had 

 planted 500, have increased 1,000, and some of 

 them have doubled that tenfold ; and yet the mar- 

 ket is now better than it was ever before, for all the 

 choice varieties of the product of orchard, vine- 

 yard, or garden. The market is not glutted, nor 

 can it be while millions of mouths continually wa- 

 ter for the luscious fruits which contrast so advanta- 

 geously with the sour crabs, " five to a pint," which 

 filled the market twenty years ago. The market 

 caunot be glutted with such fruit as the Newtown 

 pippins, Roxbury russets, Rhode Island greenings, 

 Baldwins, Belleileur, Swaar, Domine, and a great 

 variety of other excellent winter keeping apples ; 

 while the luxury-loving mouths of old England are 

 within two weeks, (we have done counting distan- 

 ces by miles,) of the fruit-bearing hills of New 

 England. Nay, not only New England and New 

 York, but the ever bearing trees of the rich plains 

 of that once far away western wild, known in our 

 boyhood as New Connecticut. But still the mar- 

 ket is not glutted, nor will it be, though all Ohio, 

 Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin, shall 

 pour in their golden treasures of golden pippins 

 from their unbounded plains of the richest fruit 

 bearing land the world ever saw, while that same 

 world full of people possess the taste they now do 

 for choice, delicious fruits. 



Our advice, therefore, is. as it has always been, 

 to every man who owns an acre of land — plant trees. 

 Don't be afraid of overstocking the market with 

 any kind of fruit, except such as your fathers used 

 to grow, and some of you still perpetuate ; be- 

 cause the refined and improved tastes of the world 

 demand, and will have, if it is procurable, the best 

 that can be grown. 



Since writing the above, we have met with the 

 following item, illustrative of our remarks upon the 

 fruit trade : — • 



Fruit Trade of Oswego — Xew York Apple Wo- 

 men. — It is esfimated that nearly 840,000 will be 

 circulated in this county this autumn, by specula- 

 tors in fruit. Some 2U,000 barrels of apples have 

 already been purchased, and many of tiiem shi[)ped 

 to New York. Tftey were Spltzbergens and Green- 

 ings, and the price to the growers has averaged 

 from 81 to Si. 50 per barrel. The fruit of the en- 

 tire county has been bought up, one firm in this 

 city alone having conlracttd for about SOuO barrels 

 of winter apples. Some o;' them which were bought 

 for ten ,'^hillings, have already been sold in New 

 York for S3.00'. 



An energeuc and skilful business woman, who 

 keeps a fiuU .-tall in Fulton Market, was in town 

 the other day, a.iid ! ought K'OO barrels of apples, 

 'ivin" her "chock ibr the amount. She has made 

 her fortune in the business, and will no doubt make 

 ■i^JOO out of the operation. She bought a few bar- 

 rels of choice pears heiv, at Sll per barrel. She 

 >vill sell the same in New York for double the mon- 

 .',y. We cannot but recommend to the farmers to 

 l)estow more attention upon fruit-growing. It will 

 ,t all times produce a golden harvest. — Osweyo 

 Journal. 



