28 AGRICULTURE OF MAINE. 



some soils, prove of value, either in itself or as a means for 

 promoting the growth of other plants. The vetches have 

 already got quite a hold in northern Maine, and rape may make 

 a valuable pasture plant for the young stock of the dairy. 



Maine is to become more and more independent of outside 

 sources in dairy feeding, as her own resources are developed, 

 and as her dairymen are brought into a fuller appreciation of 

 their value, through the teaching of her Agricultural Depart- 

 ment, the researches of her Experiment Station, and their own 

 intelligent reading and thinking. 



"My father left me no money, but he gave me an education 

 and taught me to think," said an eminently successful man. 

 The forces that make for education along these dairy lines now, 

 have struck the key note of the situation and are bending their 

 efforts toward that thinking on the part of our dairy people that 

 shall bring them up from the role of empiricism, with its narrow 

 horizon, onto the summit of broad thinking, intelligent working 

 and grand results. May Heaven hasten the day! 



MODERN METHODS OF ORCHARD MANAGEMENT 



AS THEY MAY BE APPLIED IN MAINE. 



By E. Cyrus Miller, Hillside Orchards, Haydenville, Mass. 



OPPORTUNITIES FOR COMMERCIAL ORCHARDING. 



As the result of a life-long interest in and study of horticul- 

 tural matters, as well as being associated with my father in 

 establishing and developing one of the largest orchard proposi- 

 tions in New England, I do not hesitate to affirm that the apple 

 is not only the safest and most profitable orchard crop in New 

 England, but that it is also, because of its wonderful adapta- 

 bility to succeed on so many types of soil, next to the dairy cow, 

 the most valuable asset to our New England agriculture. 



In no state that I have visited do I find greater opportunities 

 for orcharding than in Maine. There is an abundance of cheap 

 land, thousands of locations that have the atmospheric and sur- 

 face drainage that is so essential in establishing our modern 

 orchards, and soils and climate that develop a product of fine 

 appearance and high quality. Also the gateway to the export 



