School boy apples are the smaller apples- the ones that are two to three inches- Here in California they usually come in bags and you put them in your kids lunches.
School Boys apples was a moniker created by my Great, Great Grandfather, Benjamin Franklin "B.F." Tussing, apple grower in Fruitland, Idaho to describe the smaller apples. B.F. is credited with development of the “School Boy Apple,” which was actually a small-grade Red Delicious. B.F. realized that not all Americans could afford the Fancy #1 apples being packed in Fruitland in the early 1900s. After devising and patenting a grading machine to sort apples by size and weight, he created a market for the small, but tasty, School Boys, and sold them by the bag, rather than in a carefully packed bushel basket.
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An apple for the teacher? That's the only kind of school boy apples I know of. It's a catchy name, designed to get people to try them. Did it work?
School boy apples are the smaller apples- the ones that are two to three inches- Here in California they usually come in bags and you put them in your kids lunches.
Greetings,
School Boys apples was a moniker created by my Great, Great Grandfather, Benjamin Franklin "B.F." Tussing, apple grower in Fruitland, Idaho to describe the smaller apples. B.F. is credited with development of the “School Boy Apple,” which was actually a small-grade Red Delicious. B.F. realized that not all Americans could afford the Fancy #1 apples being packed in Fruitland in the early 1900s. After devising and patenting a grading machine to sort apples by size and weight, he created a market for the small, but tasty, School Boys, and sold them by the bag, rather than in a carefully packed bushel basket.
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Tussing-158
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