NEW YORK, JANUARY 16, 1909. 
WEEKLY, $1.00 PER YEAR. 
VOL. LXVIII. No. 3077. 
THE BASHFUL STATE-VERMONT. 
The Outlook for Apples. 
Vermont’s great advantages as an apple-growing 
State are climate, location and soil, important in the 
order named. The Apple Consumers’ League started 
things, and how that a healthy public opinion is 
demanding one or more apples per day for each 
person'in' the land, jaws have begun to wag and the 
cry is_ for- good . eating apples at all seasons of the 
year, and no State in the Union can fill the bill as 
completely or as cheaply as Vermont, climate and 
location being the dominant factors. The greatly in¬ 
creased demand in the northeastern United States for 
fine eating apples in early Fall and Winter can be met 
from Vermont with Gravenstein, Wealthy and Mc¬ 
Intosh of great beauty and highest quality, because 
these varieties mature there so late, and in such a per¬ 
fect apple climate, as to be good keepers well into 
the Winter, while from most other sections of the 
country these same varieties are late Summer or very 
early Fall apples that must be quickly consumed or 
lose their value, and as it is the table apple of beauty 
ity; has a deep strong subsoil, which with thorough till¬ 
age and cover crops requires but little added fertility 
to produce perfect trees,and fruit, and much of this 
good apple land can be bought at a price far below 
its value for orchard purposes, prices ranging any¬ 
where from one-fourth to one-twentieth of the asking 
price of some western orchard lands in the over¬ 
boomed sections. Within the past 12 years I have 
planted nearly 300 acres of Connecticut hill lands to 
apple orchards, and from the beautiful specimens 
showing upon many of these trees the past year • or 
two, I am fully convinced that I have a great and 
profitable investment that will stay with me through 
life as a sure thing, and it is a great satisfaction to 
“do things” with neglected lands at home. There are 
great apple possibilities all over New England, but 
Vermont can be the great apple State of the Union 
if she will; there is nothing to hinder, except men 
without faith. j. h. hale. 
Connecticut. 
Why Vermont is “Bashful.” 
I note with much interest and pleasure your article 
State paid the farmer one-half of the first cost of the 
trees at the nursery. ' Another man who had his trees 
destroyed by deer called in the county game warden, 
and after the damage was estimated the warden told 
the farmer that the State expected him to cut down 
the estimated loss or damage from 50 to 75 per cent. 
There are hundreds of similar cases to these.. 
These conditions are the sole causes of Vermont's 
“bashfulness.” Remove these causes and give the 
farmer the lawful right to shoot these deer when 
caught damaging or destroying his crops, and in a 
few years Vermont’s fruit crops would be in excess 
of any other one of her products, while under our 
present game laws the State is fast becoming a big 
game preserve for the sole benefit of sportsmen. These 
are facts. Before New England can be boomed very 
much as an agricultural center our laws must be 
amended so that the farmer shall have absolute con¬ 
trol of his lands, and the unquestionable right to pro¬ 
tect his own at all times and against destroyers of his 
property. 
There is now a movement on foot for the organiza¬ 
tion of a “New England Farmers’ Protective League,” 
“COMFORT ME WITH APPLES,” EVERY DAY IN THE YEAR. Fig. 17 . 
and quality that brings the most money, Vermont, 
with these varieties, commands the situation. 
T hen the Spy and Fameuse from Vermont are un¬ 
surpassed in beauty or quality by those from any other 
section of America, the Fameuse holding on until 
April in proper storage, while the Spy, and several 
other varieties almost as good, may be had in per¬ 
fection until the new crop comes again. Owing to the 
rigid Winter climate fungus and insect pests are much 
less troublesome than anywhere else east of the 
Rockies, and less spraying is required to produce 
perfect fruit. These are all climatic advantages that 
add great permanent value to Vermont’s apple indus¬ 
try, while her nearness to the greatest high-priced 
and best consuming markets of our country, give 
her orclrardists a chance to keep their fruit in- stor¬ 
age at home, while in touch with the markets from 
day to day, and thus be able to make shipments only 
when best prices can be made sure of. In 24 to 48 
hours a carload of Vermont apples may. at a cost of 
$40 to $00. be delivered to 20,000,000 people, who have 
more money per capita than any like number of people 
on the face of the globe, while the no more beautiful 
and inferior flavored far western apples must pay $250 
to $300 per car to reach the same markets. Much of 
the best apple soil of Vermont is rich in natural fertil- 
under above heading in issue of December 26. You 
know it is said that there are always two sides to 
every question. What you say of the possibilities of 
fruit growing in Vermont is or would be entirely 
correct under more favorable game laws. Vermont 
apples are without a doubt the finest that can be 
grown anywhere in the world, and there are to-day 
thousands of acres of land in the State that would 
produce more money if planted out to apples than to 
any other crops that could be put upon the land. 
The people who own much of this land are per¬ 
fectly well aware of this fact, and I can name many 
men who would or have tried planting out large com¬ 
mercial orchards, but under our present game laws 
what is the use? It is practically impossible to bring 
an orchard up to bearing age, for the deer will destroy 
young trees as fast as they can be planted, and our 
game laws say the farmer must not shoot these deer 
even when caught in the very act of destroying his 
trees and crops, except during the week of the open 
season, when it is not safe for man to put his head 
above the top of his cellar wall. It is true our laws 
say that the State will pay all damage done by deer, 
but do they? T know of one man who started out to 
plant his farm to apple trees. He set 300 one Spring, 
and within a year the deer had killed every tree. The 
for the sole purpose of raising a sufficient sum of 
money to carry a test case to the Supreme Courts to 
see if the farmer can shoot deer or other noxious 
animals, which are now protected by our game laws, 
when caught in the act of destroying his property. 
With such a fund in hand we doubt very much if 
the Game Commissioner would see his way clear to 
prosecute the farmer who shot the deer when it was 
destroying his crops. There are sure to be plenty of 
cases for trial within a year, for the farmers of New 
England are fully determined to protect their property. 
Vermont. a. a. halladay. 
THE VALUE OF THE APPLE. 
Before me, as I am writing, is a fine Jonathan 
apple. This variety, I think, stands at the head of 
this type of red apples for quality. The longer I live, 
the greater is my appreciation of the apple. This 
morning each one of our family had a large dish of 
freshly stewed Spitzenberg apples. These, with the 
cereals, bread and butter, cereal drink, and egg, if 
wanted, make an ideal breakfast from my point of 
view. For dinner we may have apple dumplings- for 
dessert, apple marmalade, apple butter, or jelly for 
relish with the bread, or to use in place of butter, 
if we desire, and the freshly pressed juice of the 
