This Day in History: 1963-09-19
The apple picking season was in full swing. One of the area’s most interesting apple farms is that of D.J. Carlough & Son in Upper saddle River. It had been started in the 1830s by the grandfather of the owner and at this time covered 430 acres. About 25 to 30 percent of the crop each year was being exported, according to Clinton D. Carlough, the head of the company. He reported that England and Venezuela were major customers, but they also shipped to Bolivia, Peru, Panama and Puerto Rico in this hemisphere and Iceland, Ireland, Scotland, the Netherlands, Finland, Norway and Sweden in Europe. He reported that his family had farmed in the area before the first apple trees had been put in the ground in the early 1830s. One of the original trees was still alive, he said, but was not expected to last the year. The passing visitor might be confused to see the pickers putting their apples into Rupert beer cases. But Carlough said that when the brewery changed to cardboard cartons, he had bought more than 100,000 of the old wooden cases which proved to be ideal for apple picking. (Bristow)