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gift. What is the use to do business in that way? No wonder 

 we have poor orchards and we will have them just as long as 

 we use such methods. We must get down to good common 

 sense methods in orcharding just the same as we do with our 

 corn and potatoes. If we don't we never will succeed in that 

 line. 



Now for the conditions : Accept the inevitable, be optimistic, 

 have faith in the future. Plan for better orchards and see that 

 such plans are carried out in the near future. Apply all the 

 remedies that are effective and believe that "eternal vigilance 

 is the price of success" in orchard management. 



ORCHARD CULTURE. 



By William D. Hurd, Dean of the College of Agriculture, 



University of Maine. 



That the apple industry of the state of Maine is a neglected 

 one is only too well known by all who are interested in every 

 branch of Agriculture. Having had opportunity to become 

 quite familiar with two prominent orcharding states — namely, 

 ^Michigan and New York, being employed one season in the 

 apple growing region bordering the foothills of the Ozark Mts., 

 and having been engaged for short periods of time in the other 

 New England states where I have had a chance to observe 

 closely the orchard practices of our nearby neighbors, I am 

 more firmly convinced than ever that our state has the climate, 

 the atmosphere, the available land, both in quantity and quality, 

 and the natural conditions necessary to produce apples of bet- 

 ter keeping quality, more free from disease, and insect injury, 

 of a higher color and in larger quantities to the acre than any of 

 the other states in which I have lived or with which I am 

 familiar. 



There is but one other crop in Maine that can approach the 

 apple orchard in value per acre and that is the potato crop, with 

 perhaps sweet corn as a close second. Statistics show that 

 the value of potatoes in Maine last year v/as $81.20 per acre; 

 corn $27.75; wheat $26.50; oats $22.26; hay $18.75, while a 



