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our plnre one flny from the Miiinesola A<;ricultiii'al College. He was 

 looking for work in Uie orcliards. J asked liiin why he caiue to this 

 section. He rei)lie(l that he took the reports of the government as to 

 the viehl of fruit and found that \'au Buren and Berrien counties had 

 more fruit than any other two counties in the United States. That is 

 something 1 had ne\er known before, and I also learned that Benton 

 Harbor with the surrounding country for twenty miles grew more 

 fruit than any other twenty miles in the United States. This is worth 

 knowing — that Me have a space in Michigan that is first in all the 

 United States in fruit growing. I believe that the time is coming when 

 we will be the first State in the production of apples and fruit in geji- 

 eral. Then we will be on our feet again. 



WHAT THE U. S. DEPAIJTMENT OF AGBTCT LTT^KE IS DOING 



FOB THE FKUIT GROWER. 



PROF. HALLIGAN, EAST LANSING. 



Ladies and Gentlemen of the Michigan State Horticultural Society: 

 I am very sorry to say to yon that Prof. Eustace cannot be here to 

 take part in this ])rogram. He has been given a year's leave of absence 

 and is engaged f)y the Bureau of Pomological investigation and is 

 traveling arctund through, ditferent sections of the country, studying the 

 relationshij) of one section to another and suggesting lines of investi- 

 gation of work that is to be taken up by the Bureau of Pomological 

 Investigation. He has traveled through New York and the New Eng- 

 land States and is now in Florida. I tried to get him up here, but he 

 is too far away to make the trip. 



I will say that I feel that this subject is an important one because 

 there are various lines of Avork that should be brought to our attention. 

 I want to lay particular emi)liasis on what our own exi)eriment stations 

 are doing in our own State. We can draAV a division ])retty well be- 

 tween the station experiments an<l the I)ep>artment of Agriculture. 

 The r)ei)artment of Agriculture }»ractices what it preaches. Many ex- 

 periments th.at we are carrying on in this State are in co-operation Avith 

 the Department of Agriculture. 



Many of you are familiar with the educational Avork, the college 

 training that is being given at Lansing; but I fear that many are 

 not familiar with the large scope of investigational Avork. As I travel 

 altout the State I am frequently im])ressed Avith the services of an 

 office at Washington, called the OtlEice of Farm Management. The serv- 

 ice that this office is trying to perform is to study the type of farming 

 that should exist in various parts of the country, and of systems of 

 culture, different crops, and of combination crops best adapted to the 

 particular location and i)revailing conditions. 



There is another thing that many of us have found out that more 

 stock should be kept on the farm if Av^e wish to utilize and' uniformly 

 distribute our labor and maintain and utilize all of our farms. The 



