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Resolved. That we commend to the favorable consideration of Maine 

 fruit growers the recommendations of President Keyser for cooperation 

 in securing better and more general storage and marketing of our fruit. 



D. H. KNOWLTON, 

 G. M. TWITCHELL. 

 Voted, that the report be accepted. 



Committee on resolutions on the death of D. P. True reported 

 as follows : 



RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT. 



Whereas, God in his infinite wisdom has again entered our society and 

 removed from our midst our fellow member, Davis P. True, be it 



Resolved, That we express our sorrow and mourn the loss of one who 

 has served our society as one of the officers for a number of years. 



Resolved, That we as members of the Maine State Pomological Soci- 

 ety extend our sympathy to the family of our departed member, and 

 commend them to the Great Ruler, for comfort. 



Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the family and 

 also published in the annual report. 



ELLIS L. LINCOLN, 

 G. M. TWITCHELL, 

 D. H. KNOWLTON, 



Committee on Resolutions. 



THE INFLUENCE OF CULTURAL METHODS AND 

 COVER CROPS, ALONE AND WITH FERTIL- 

 IZATION, UPON THE YIELD, GROWTH AND 

 COMMERCIAL QUALITY OF APPLES. 



By Dr. J. P. Stewart, 



Experimental Pomologist, State College, Pa. 



In the present discussion I wish to bring before you the 

 principal actual results that we have obtained in Pennsylvania 

 during the past six or seven years from the use of various 

 cultural methods on different soil types and in orchards of dif- 

 ferent ages. Many of these results are different from what 

 might have been predicted before the experiments began, and 

 they also differ materially from many of the present horticul- 

 tural writings and teachings. These matters are not dependent 

 on opinions or preferences, however, and our sole duty has been 

 to present the various questions to the trees themselves and then 



