76 STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



REMARKS. 



By Prof. Craig, in presenting the prize to the successful com- 

 petitor in the fruit judging contest, 



I want to congratulate the Society, I want to congratulate 

 our friends in the Experiment Station on instituting something 

 which is valuable from the standpoint of industrial development 

 and the standpoint of educational advancement. We see two 

 things going on in our horticultural work in whatever state we 

 may be placed. We see old orchards going out; I am sorry 

 to say we do not always see new orchards coming in. We also 

 see the men who have been instrumental in pushing forward the 

 work of pomology going out ; I am sorry to say that we do not 

 always see young men coming in to take their places. Now 

 here is an effort on the part of our Professor of Horticulture 

 at Orono to interest the young men, and he has done it very 

 successfully thus far, and I congratulate you as members of the 

 Society in having a man of that point of view, and I congratu- 

 late you on having young men who respond to his initiative, and 

 it is therefore with great pleasure that I have acceded to the 

 request to discharge this pleasant duty of awarding the prize 

 in this scoring contest. The score card method of judging fruit 

 is an analytic method. It is a method whereby we take the 

 object, divide it up into integral parts and give a definite value 

 to each. We then recognize the intrinsic qualities of the fruit 

 or the object to be judged. That is the purpose of the score 

 card method. It is not any system of generalization. We take 

 the fruit apart, as it were, and examine it all through. That 

 system has been adopted here, and these young men from the 

 institution have come over and passed upon that beautiful 

 exhibit of fruit in the adjoining hall, and the person who has 

 come nearest the score of the expert judges has won the prize. 

 The score of the judges was 171 points. The score of the win- 

 ning member of the student judging stafif was 162, which speaks 

 well for the ability of that person and also for the training 

 which he has had. It is very interesting to note that of the nine 

 men who judged the lowest score was 138 — not so bad, I should 



