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US to take up pomological subjects, they must give us a place 

 to work. We have funds that can be used for experimental 

 purposes. But we have no funds with which we can rent land 

 or buy land, and if we are going to do this kind of work it is 

 necessary for us to have a place upon which to work. As many 

 of you know, we were unable to retain Prof. Munson with us. 

 He has been doing this work for many years. Another state 

 offered him more money. We could have met that in the way 

 of salary, but they offered him opportunities for work and we 

 couldn't ofifer him opportunities for work in pomology because 

 we had no place to set him at work, and we could not retain 

 him. We have not filled Prof. Munson's position in the Experi- 

 ment Station because we could only get men to come to us who 

 would want to come for the sake of the salary, and we didn't 

 want that kind of a man. We want men to come to us, like 

 the rest of the Experiment Station staff, that are more desirous 

 for work and opportunities than they are for money. We have 

 upon our staff, and are retaining men that can get more money 

 elsewhere than we are giving them, but they like their work, 

 and we can give them opportunities for work such as educa- 

 tional institutions cannot give. They have the chance for 

 investigation, for finding out new problems, and they stay with 

 us. Give us a place for work and we can get a pomologist to 

 come that will be ready to take up these problems. 



Now, Mr. President, during this sesion in a business meeting 

 I hope that we will pass a resolution reaffirming our position 

 of two years ago, asking the Maine Agricultural Station to do 

 more work in pomology, and that we respectfully ask the 

 Legislature to pass the bill which is now in its hands which will 

 give a suitable place for carrying out this work of investigation. 



I want to explain why it is valuable for us to have the farm 

 now and would be of no use if the state should do it two years 

 from now. Through the efforts of the late Henry C. Adams, 

 of Wisconsin, whom many of us remember as having come to 

 the Dairymen's meeting some years ago, a bill was introduced 

 into Congress and passed whereby the Agricultural Experiment 

 Stations were further endowed by $5,000, annually, to be 

 increased $2,000 each year until it should get up to $15,000. 



