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ative enterprises. As was so well brought out in the preced- 

 ing discussion, "United we stand, divided we fall." May this 

 session of the Pomological Society see action which will early 

 result in the united forces of fruit growers throughout the State 



PLEASURE AND PROFIT IN WESTERN NEW 



YORK APPLES. 

 By Clark Alus, Medina, N. Y. 



Ladies and Gentlemen; Fruitgrowers of the good old State 

 of Maine : It is a pleasure to be here with you and I have 

 thoroughly enjoyed my visit here. 



In looking at the State of Maine on a map of the United 

 States it does not look very large, but every year we hear from 

 the buyers that Maine has such a large apple crop that all the 

 rest of the country cannot sell their apples, and from the num- 

 ber of barrels they talk about, every tree in the State, Christmas 

 trees and all, must produce large crops of apples ; and this year 

 when the apple crop is short above ground, all the trees must 

 be producing apples on their roots and when dug buyers think 

 them potatoes, for buyers say Maine has so many potatoes the 

 railroad company cannot furnish cars to move the potato crop. 



In orcharding as well as in other enterprises, the more pleas- 

 ure we take in our work, the more profit we usually receive, 

 and the more profit we receive the more our pleasure increases ; 

 and while the love of money may be and often is the root of all 

 evil, we all try to help it get a deep root. The last seven years 

 have been fairly successful with apples with us and that success 

 comes from spraying, fertilizing and tilling. 



In one orchard of 30 acres which I bought, about one-half 

 had been in sod over thirty years. The trees were set 30 x 30 

 feet. I mulched them well with rich sheep manure and pastured 

 the orchard with sheep but it produced such a crop of blue grass 

 and June grass, the leaves of which evaporated so much mois- 

 ture, I decided to plow it up, which I did last winter. I left a 

 part of the orchard in sod to experiment farther with along the 

 mulch or sod method, and that orchard has more cigar and 

 pistol case bearers than any other I have and an extra fine lot 



