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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



April, 1914 



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Prof. Craig 



Better Eastern Apples — 

 Why Not? 



THROUGHOUT Westchester County, N. Y., 

 and Connecticut, those farmers owning 

 orchards have, of late years, apparently come to the 

 conclusion that it is impossible to compete with 

 western grown fruit, and they have therefore almost 

 universally neglected their trees, the product very 

 clearly showing this lack of care. It is to this con- 

 dition that is due, in a large measure, the frequent 

 statement that "there is not enough money in 

 apples to pay for picking." 



To the country lover few things are more depres- 

 ing than the appearance of many of these grass- 

 grown orchards at the present time. 



The writer, like many small farmers, had for some 

 years assumed that the splendid fruit produced in 

 Washington and Oregon should be credited entirely 

 to the climate and soil of these states. It was an 

 interesting revelation to him, therefore, in spending 

 a week in Hood River Valley some four years ago, 

 to discover that the superb product of this and other 

 valleys in the Northwest was the result, not alone 

 of climate, but still more due to the intelligent 

 management and care of the fruit grower. 



The brief study he was able to give to the matter 

 greatly interested the writer and he returned to his 

 home in Westchester County with the resolution 

 to experiment a little with his own trees. This was 

 four years ago and up to that time he had no prac- 

 tical knowledge of the San Jose scale. An exami- 

 nation of his little orchard showed his trees all 

 badly affected. 



In November these trees were thoroughly sprayed 

 with the lime and sulphur mixture, this being re- 

 peated in the following March, at which time the 

 trees were carefully pruned and scraped. 



In May, just as the blossoms were falling, the 

 orchard was sprayed for codling moth with arsen- 

 ate of lead, this being repeated ten days later. 

 The sod in which these trees had been growing for 

 some years was plowed under in April, well har- 

 rowed and sowed to red clover, which was turned 

 under in September. In July the fruit was carefully 

 thinned and some summer pruning done. 



The result, after a year of such treatment, was 

 certainly a surprise to all those interested. The 

 varieties of apples in this little orchard are Graven- 

 stein, Fall Pippin, Northern Spy, Baldwin, King, 

 and Rhode Island Greening, and the crops produced 

 in past years (the trees had been set out about 

 twenty years) were insignificant, with a very poor 

 quality of small and worm-eaten apples. 



For the past three years, and especially during 

 the season of 1913, the fruit from the trees has been 

 almost phenomenal for this section of the country. 

 For size and brilliant appearance the writer has seen 

 nothing in Oregon or Washington to excel the pro- 

 duce of his little orchard and he has tasted no fruit 

 in the Northwest which would compare in flavor 

 and juiciness with his crops of Spy, Pippin and 

 Greening. 



It seems iO the writer, beyond perad venture, that 

 if the Eastern farmer would replace the present 

 neglect of his fruit with the up-to-date intelligent 

 attention accorded by Western growers many of 

 the neglected orchards might be made to produce 

 fruit equal in size and appearance and far exceeding 

 the quality of the apples grown in Oregon and 

 Washington. 



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