STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 'J'J 



smallest crop this year that I have ever had in quantity, and I 

 guess on the whole the worst crop in quality that I have ever 

 had. But it didn't kill the trees that had been most forced. It 

 may be we shall find that a good many of them are dead next 

 year, that they have just struggled through this year without 

 showing any great sign of injury, and we shall find a good many 

 of them won't live out next year. But our experience has been 

 that it pays to force the tree, — to start them right and then after 

 they get started to force them every way we know how, by cul- 

 tivating, and by manuring, and by pruning, — make the tree grow 

 just as fast as we can make it, and give the tree if possible a 

 short life and a merry one, and when its short life is over, dig 

 it up and start anotlier one in the same way. 



HOME STORAGE FOR FRUITS. 

 By T. L. Kinney, South Hero, Vermont. 



I think the apple is the main fruit grown for market in 

 Northern New England, and it is the market subject, very 

 largely, that we are discussing as I see by the program today. 

 The most important subject of any that we can consider at the 

 present time in New England, in Northern New England espe- 

 cially, and in fact all over our country, is the legalizing of a 

 standard for grading, for packing and marketing our fruit. It 

 seems to me to be of the first importance. 



The next perhaps most important question is the labor subject 

 which is staring not only the fruit growers of our country in the 

 face but everybody that is trying to do business, the manu- 

 facturers, the farmers, the agriculturists in any line. 



The next subject which calls our attention more strongly I 

 think than any other is home storage, especially here in Northern 

 New England, Northern Vermont, and Northern New Hamp- 

 shire, and the whole I think of Maine. The dairymen of the 

 State of Maine and the state of Vermont have long since learned 

 the importance of having a place for their cows, a dairy barn — 

 and it can't be too good, it must be up-to-date — the cows must 

 be cared for and the products cared for; the horseman never 

 stops with the pasture in breeding a horse for market, but he 



