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our fruit is mainly in the better-cared'*for 
orchards. 
The journey from Annapolis Valley to 
Boston takes around 24 hours. I left 
Berwick on the 11 A. M. train, the 
steamer at Yarmouth, N. S., started at 
6:30 P. M’.. and got to Boston at 0 A. M. 
next morning; cost one way. $13. At 
Boston I went to the Arnold Arboretum 
to see the collection of trees and shrubs. 
My next call was at the Marshall or¬ 
chards at Fitchburg, Mass. Mr. Mar¬ 
shall has loO acres of six kinds of ap¬ 
ples. Wealthy. Gravenstein. McIntosh. 
Baldwin. Delicious and one other. 
At Amherst. Mass.. Prof. Waugh and 
Prof. Sears have 175 acres of orchards, 
and by combining five old run-down farms 
have a total of 500 acres at Bay Road 
Fruit Farm. The oldest is now 12 years 
old. The soil is light and 1 sandy, facing 
southeast. As Prof. Sears was away, 
the foreman showed me around. They 
use a good deal of Polish labor, and plan 
to thin, their fruit. The tree© are low¬ 
headed and spaced about 30 ft. apart. 
Their varieties are Transparent. Duchess. 
Wealthy. Early Williams. Gravenstein, 
Wolf River, Wagener and McIntosh. 
Wolf River was substituted in place of 
Gravenstein, which had been ordered. 
They are now grafted into McIntosh. 
Duchess is selling unsorted at $1.25. de¬ 
livered at Amherst and local towns, per 
14-quart basket. Early Williams made 
$1.75 to $2. At this farm a number of 
12-year-old McIntosh trees were trans¬ 
planted last Fall. A frozen ball of earth 
was taken with the apple roots and tree 
and the dirt ball was placed in holes 
previously dug. The trees were leafed 
out, and all looked as if they might grow. 
Just whether it will pay is a question to 
me. Leaf hopper had done much dam¬ 
age. especially to Wagener. on this light 
soil. They use lime-sulphur and Black 
Leaf 40 as a spray. 
From Amherst I went, un to Green field, 
in Franklin County. Mass. Up in this 
hilly section apple trees come up in the 
fields and pastures. By grafting in good 
varieties, mainly Baldwins, the growers 
have developed some fine orchards. Driv¬ 
ing from Ashfield with John W. Howes 
of Apple Valley, we came through by 
Little Switzerland, and saw the valley 
rolling with fold below fold of fields and 
pastures. Everywhere in the field© were 
grafted wild apple trees, and I was in¬ 
terested to hear that most were sprayed, 
and as yet no dusting was practiced. 
There are a few orchards planted in rows, 
but practically all in rich green sod, from 
which the second crop of hay was being 
cut at date of my visit. John W. Howes 
has 444 acres of northern and northeast¬ 
ern slopes, with 35 arret; of orchard, and 
many detached treee9. He expects some 
300 barrels of apples. Curiously enough, 
though he sprays the higher ground a 
little hotter, ns he thinks, than the lower 
orchards, still he finds the McIntosh 
rather more scabby on the high ground, 
and this every year. Here I found Dud¬ 
ley fan apple I raise a lot of). Wealthy, 
Duchess. Greening. Baldwin and a few 
Northern Spy. Gravenstein is too tender; 
Mr. Howes looks right down the hill¬ 
side. with the hills away in the distance as 
background. Tn the early morning, with 
the valley filled with fog and the low- 
ground grassy hills showing up here and 
there, it reminded me of the islands in 
Bermuda. It is a most lovely country. 
On this farm T was pointed out two good 
wrinkles. One is spikes on the lower legs 
of apple ladders. They are made of 
Sxlx 1/ | iron screwed on flat to the in¬ 
side of the ladder, then quarter twisted 
where they stick in the ground. They 
steady the ladder and also help in raising 
a heavy ladder. The other idea is a 
scraper made of %-in. steel, left square on 
the edges, and about 3%x6 in., with two 
circles bitten out of two sides to fit small 
and large apple trees, the whole riveted 
to 'be at right angles to handles, which 
run from 3 ft. to 4 ft. long. A neighbor 
of Mr. Howes. W. C. F. Tutor, uses the 
1 :10 lime-sulphur on apple trees as a 
pink snrny. ITis apples wro good, and 
the foliage undamaged. He used this 
strength last year also. Evidently con¬ 
ditions vary. 
Another grower who has arrived is W. 
Dexter Dodd of Hudson. Mass., close to 
West Acton. Mr. Dodd has only 10 acres 
of .apples, and does not raise any other 
crop. Tie keeps the best, help he can get 
without regard to price, sprays and thins 
with judgment and energy, and was top¬ 
ping the market with os high as $6 a 
box for Red Astrnchan. Tie uses a Pease 
grader, with which lie is well pleased, 
nis “P rovidence” apple boxes are open 
with two thin slats across to allow of 
tying them on too of each other, and 
cost 30 cents complete, which is reduced 
to 15 cents, as the dealers sell the box 
a second time to vegetable growers. The 
box holds about one blithe! of auples. 
He pointed out to me that metal hoops 
on barrels increase the apparent size of 
a barrel. Mr. Dexter Dodd uses limo- 
sulphur for each spray, and puts Black 
Leaf 40 into each and every application. 
I had a mild disagreement with this, as 
I’ve got an idea that nicotine does as 
much harm t<> the foliage as to the suck¬ 
ing insects. However, my belief is based 
on narrow grounds. He is interested 
with Dir. .Trucks and others in a fine co¬ 
operative roadside stand. For all his 
spraying. Mr. Dodd had quite a lot of 
leaf-hoppers. 
TTis varieties ran mostly to Wealthy. 
Gravenstein. McIntosh and Baldwin. I 
would put his point, down as about as 
good as can he grown without thinning. 
(Continued on page 1512) 
September 25, 1920 
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