14 AGRICULTURE OF MAINE. 



tial. If the banks of the State of Maine, instead of lending so 

 large a percentage of their money upon western securities 

 would lend more in the good old State of Maine, we should 

 hear the hum of industry everywdiere. So as we labor, let us 

 remember that we are working together and that these things 

 which we notice today and which call for correction are to be 

 corrected only as men in the town and men in the country 

 stand shoulder to shoulder to help solve the great ])roblems 

 which come into their hands, and doing that we will find that 

 the Maine State Pomological Society, uniting with the boards 

 of trade in towns and cities, will hold yearly larger and still 

 larger exhibitions, will call together yearly larger and still 

 larger numbers, will exert a wider and still wider influence, and 

 in the years we will find that this fruit industry is becoming one 

 of the great industrial works of the vState and bringing satisfac- 

 tion as well as comfort and substantial returns to every locality. 



SOME LESSOXS FROM 1911. 



By Gkorge T. Povvf.ll, President of tlie Agricultural Experts 



Association, New York. 



Each year as it passes has its particular lessons which if 

 they are learne'l should be a help in the coming years. 



One of the chief obstacles to the more rapid progress of a 

 large number of tliose engaged in farming is that of not study- 

 ing the conditions of each year as they present themselves, jmd 

 changing and modifying their practice to more efficiently meer 

 the requirements of existing conditions. 



DRY wintkr of 1910-11. 



The year just passing was preceded by an unusually dry win- 

 ter. Very little rain fell in the autumn of 1910, and but little 

 snow covered the ground in many sections through the winter, 

 while there was a deficiency of rainfall through the spring 

 and summer. There was an unusual loss of trees and shru.bs 

 in many places in New England and New York, tlie cause for 

 which was attributed to the severe open winter. 



