CONTENTS. 



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Officers for 1908 4 



Members — Life 5 



Annual 6 



Report of Executive Committee 7 



Treasurer 9 



Business Transactions 12 



Annual Meeting 17 



Invocation by Prof. Hatch 17 



Address of Welcome by Mayor Bunker 18 



Response by Will E. Leland I9 



Annual Address by President W. Craig 20 



Secretary's Report : 23 



Our Present Orchard Conditions and a Remedy Applied, by 



Prof. E. F. Hitchings 28 



Orchard Culture, by Prof. W. D. Hurd 35 



Maine Orchard Diseases in 1908, by W. J. Morse 45 



The Cherry, by S. G. Shurtleff 52 



Legislation to Promote Apple Growing, by Dr. G. M. Twitchell 57 



The Apple Consumers' League, by E. P. Mayo (fj 



Demonstration in Apple Packing, by Prof. Gardner and Orono 



Students 69 



Why Apples Decay, by Victor R. Gardner 71 



Remarks by Prof. Craig 76 



Starting a Commercial Orchard, by Prof. F. C. Sears ^7 



Abstract of Lecture on Gleanings from Orchard Survey Work 



in New York, by Prof. John Craig 89 



Lidustrial Democracy — Co-operation, by Prof. Peter Hendrick- 



son 102 



Co-operation for IMaine Fruit Growers, by G. C. Sevey Ill 



Pleasure and Profit in Western New York Apples, by Clark 



Allis 121 



Legislation for Pure Insecticides, by Prof. E. D. Sanderson.. 129 



Horticulture in Europe, by Prof. John Craig 134 



A Few Phases of the Busy Bee, by Miss L. M. Scales 151 



Maine State Pomological Society and Station Entomology; 



Mutual Interests, by Miss Edith M. Patch 158 



The Husk and the Kernel of Rural Life, by Mrs. V. P. DeCoster 161 



