Superfluous Apples Apple-growers are always concerned with the competition from
abroad, and last week I recorded my observation of what appeared to be an absurd state of affairs within a hundred yards of my home. Since then I have seen a letter in the Press from an Essex farmer, who says: "The economic disposal of low-grade fruit is not quite so simple as might appear, but there are already several plants making various by-products." He advocates the giving up of growing low-grade fruit at all, and this is a council of perfection. But, meanwhile, the English countryside is full of ancient orchards whose annual dropping of thousands of tons of non- descript apples is wasted. Is it impossible, I wonder, for the cider-makers of the country to organise the manufacture of a competitor to the valuable Calvados of Normandy ? Good apple-jack, to give it the English name, surely should be an exportable commodity, especially to dollar countries. Do we not make some of the best cherry-brandy in the world ?
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