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About
Chazy Orchards
a leading
grower...
of McIntosh apples in the Northeast, Hon. Fred L. Porter
of Crown Point, N.Y., formed a corporation in 1929 and took over
the plantings from the Delaware and Hudson Railroad Corp. Mr.
I. Hasbrouck Chahoon, of Ausable Forks, N.Y., and Hon. Bertram
H. Snell, of Potsdam N.Y., were instrumental in its continued
growth and development. The orchard is now owned and operated
by Donald F. Green III.
The Company rents about 600 colonies
of honey bees to pollinate the blossoms, for most varieties are
self sterile. The bees, in their search for nectar, carry the
pollen on their bodies from flower to flower, where it is deposited
on the stigma, carried down through the style and into the ovary;
there under favorable conditions the seed of the apple is developed.
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the trees...
are pruned for strong structure and maximum bearing surface each
year, fertilized scientifically thru an annual program of soil
and leaf analysis, and sprayed a minimum number of times with
Federally approved non-residual materials to control insects
and disease. This all requres a large investment in equipment
to do an adequate job with a minimum of man power.
the picking...
usually begins about September 15th in
a normal season and the McIntosh harvest should be completed
three weeks from the day it is started. Just under 250,000 boxes,
each slightly more than one bushel, were harvested in 2001, by
a harvest crew of 150 Jamaicans.
modern cold
storage...
As quickly as possible, within a very few hours after the fruit
is picked, it is stored in our modern cold storage where the
rooms are held at 32° F. Fast cooling after picking is essential
for long keeping. In 1937 a modern cold storage for 100,000 boxes,
of frame construction and insulated with ground cork, was constructed.
In the summer of 1957, a concrete block structure was added,
insulated with Styrofoam, consisting of three rooms holding a
total of about 60,000 eastern standard apple boxes. Again, in
1971, a tilt-up concrete addition of approximately the same size
was completed, and insulated with sprayed-on expanded urethane.
These latter buildings are all the "Controlled Atmosphere"
type storage. The apple marketing season, previous to this C
A storage, extended over not more than a seven month period.
Now it is a year-round buisness. Apples, fresh as the day they
were picked, are available from these C A rooms.
this company...
was one of the pioneers in commerical Controlled Atmosphere storage
for McIntosh. In 1944, with the help of Dr. R. M. Smock,
Cornell University, a room in the original cold storage was converted
for C A storage. This room was successful in demonstrating the
effectiveness of this method for long keeping of apples.
the fruit...
is graded and sized out of storage to the individual buyer's
order. Most of the best grade fruit is now packed into cell cartons
and film overwrapped consumer trays. Some of the best grade and
most all the intermediate grade are packed into polyethylene
bags of three and five pound sizes. Over two million polyethylene
bags and consumer trays are packed annually in addition to the
cell cartons. We ship all over the United States and export overseas
thru the ports of Montréal and New York.
apples are nature's own dentifrice. They are more efficient
than toothbrushes for cleansing the teeth, and have a mouth cleansing
quality which no other fruit possesses.
Dr. Kellogg of Battle Creek Sanitarium said long ago, "In
health or disease apples are the best all around fruit."
When you don't feel right in your tummy, eat a McIntosh.
They scraped them for
the baby,
Because he could not chew ;
And Grandpa having lost his teeth,
Preferred them that way too. |
A modern version of the old saying:
Eat apples freely every
day,
To keep intestinal poisons away. |
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