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the Director of the Station, three members of the Board of 

 Trustees, and one member representing each of the various 

 agricultural organizations in the state, — Commissioner of 

 Agriculture, the State Dairyman's Association, the State 

 Grange and the Pomological Society. And Mr. Pope is the 

 member which you elected last year to represent you upon the 

 Experiment Station Council. 



Previous to the Council meeting the Experiment Station 

 Director has prepared or obtained from his staff an outline of 

 the work which they have been doing through the year and 

 things which they would like to undertake, and that is type- 

 written, making perhaps twenty-five pages, and sent to each 

 member previous to the meeting. Then when they come 

 together at the meeting they do not take this matter up for the 

 first time but it comes to them more or less familiar. And so 

 all of the work of the Station for the year is discussed in the 

 two days' meeting of the Experiment Station Council, and mem- 

 bers make suggestions. We have had in the years past great 

 respect to the recommendations that have come from the mem- 

 ber of this Society, that we should undertake pomological 

 problems, and the Station is ready to undertake more pomo- 

 logical problems than it has, provided it has an opportunity for 

 doing the work. 



We can help at present along certain lines which have to do 

 with the diseases of the orchard and with the insect enemies of 

 the orchard, but it is obviously impossible to do direct pomo- 

 logical work by way of investigations which must go over a 

 series of years without having a definite orchard in which to 

 work. Orono, unfortunately, is situated outside of the apple belt, 

 so that work that could be done upon apple trees which are 

 growing in Penobscot County would be of very little help and 

 value to pomology in the state as a whole. In consequence we 

 have had to do what little work we have done in orcharding that 

 has been of much importance upon trees belonging to other peo- 

 ple. For ten years, up to last year, the Experiment Station have 

 been working in the orchards of Mr. Pope who very kindly 

 placed them at our disposal. And certain kinds of problems could 

 be undertaken. It is perfectly possible when we want to make 

 experiments on potatoes or any kind of an annual crop, to go 



