July, 1926] 



Apple Industry in Nkw Hampshire 



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cent of fillers among fhe bearing trees and between 18 and 19 per cent 

 in the non-bearing. However, if the Mcintosh are omitted from this 

 calculation we find that the other fall varieties show 20 per cent of 

 fillers in the bearing group and nearh- 37 per cent in the non-bearing. 

 From present indications expansion of the Mcintosh industiy would 

 vseem fully justifiable. The present plantings will no doubt provide 

 more fruit than the New England markets will absorb. However, the 

 Mcintosh is not grown successfully farther south, and there are indica- 

 tions that a wide market can be develoi)ed b>- shipping to the South 

 and West. We expect future plantings of Mcintosh to exceed those of 



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FIGURK 4. Number of trees of each of the iniportiint commercial varieties and 

 proportion under IS years of age. 



Baldwin. Nevertheless, the planting of orchards exclusively of this var- 

 iety would be poor policy because it must be harvested during a very 

 short season and there is a definite limit to the number of trees which 

 any given grower can handle successfully. It is wise to "break in" the 

 picking crew on some other variety which requires less skill in harvest- 

 ing. It would be unwise to attempt to organize a crew of pickers and 

 l)ackers exclusively for the short period of Mcintosh harvest. 



Wealthy, second in importance among fall varieties, ranks third 

 aiin)ng all varieties in commercial importance. , Hardy, productive at 

 an early age, cosmopolitan as to soil and climate, it has been produced 

 with i)rofit by a large number of growers. The rapidly growing popu- 

 larity of the Mcintosh, however, has meant increased competition which 

 the Wealthy is unable to meet. The trade is definitely "off Wealthy" 

 when the first Mcintosh are a\'ailable. To store these apples would be 

 futile because it would only bring them into the midst of the Mcintosh 



