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isfactory. especially the growth of the apple, on account of the 

 large numher of insects and the difficulty in obtaining markets — 

 of selling our products. Yet I think that difficulty would be 

 overcome very largely if we could grow better fruit. I think 

 that is the one point which we must work for. Good fruit al- 

 ways sells at good prices, and the more good fruit put upon the 

 niarket the greater will be the demand, the larger the consump- 

 tion. 



Our difficulties are largely from insect pests. We can control 

 the fungous pests, the blight, the scab, but the insect pests we are 

 not able to control except at a great expense. With the older 

 insects you are familiar, and the problem with you is probably 

 the same as with us, how to get rid of the codling moth, the 

 apple maggot, the caterpillars that feed upon the foliage. And 

 we have now the gipsy moth and the brown-tail, and also the 

 San Jose scale which is becoming a great pest, and with each 

 individual it becomes the cjuestion of reducing the number and 

 preventing the newer ones doing injury. The first brown-tail 

 that vou find should be destroyed. The individual should do 

 what he can. The State should do as much as possible. I do 

 not believe in treating the individual grower as a criminal be- 

 cause the San Jose scale, because the gipsy moth or the brown- 

 tail, happens to be located on his property, but he .should do 

 what is possible, what is reasonable. The State should do the 

 rest. And that is what is being done in Massachusetts. If you 

 find the San Jose scale upon one tree, either prepare to destroy 

 it — as can be done — or destroy the tree. That is the safest 

 thing. 



Prof. Maxwell J. Dorsey: It is a pleasure indeed for me 

 to be with you today and extend you greetings from the Univers- 

 ity of ]\Iaine. 



I don't know of anything better than for men engaged in 

 horticulture to get together and compare varieties, compare 

 ideas, rub up against each other and compete in just such a meet- 

 ing as this. I only wish that every man in the State interested 

 in growing fruit could have the advantage that is before us 

 here today of seeing these varieties, seeing this exhibit, and get- 

 ting what we are geting out of it. 



In this work the University and the Experiment Station wish 

 to join hands. The Experiment Station can probably reach 



