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of our society. We need them and they need us. If they are 

 not interested in "Better fruit for Maine," we will make them 

 so. Let us all pull as one strong team together. 



I have referred to the necessity of cold storage, the investi- 

 gation of freights, and the increase of members, and I recom- 

 mend the appointment of standing committees of three members 

 each, to be known as storage committee, transportation com- 

 mittee, and membership committee. 



At the close of two years administration of the office to 

 which you have twice honored me, I want to thank the mem- 

 bers and the officers for the loyal support I have received at 

 all times, and bespeak the same for my successor, and pledge 

 him my hearty cooperation in his work, which, while at times 

 he will find it exacting, will also have its pleasant side, in the 

 knowledge that he is doing his utmost to place a great industry 

 on a sure foundation for succeeding generations. 



FACTORS INFLUENCING SUCCESSFUL ORCHARD 



SPRAYING. 



Donald Reddick, Professor of Plant Pathology, Cornell Uni- 

 versity. 



In attempting to speak on such a subject, I realize fully 

 that local conditions and special adaptation for work will re- 

 quire that I confine myself strictly to general fundamental 

 considerations. The differences in conditions in the state of 

 Maine and in New York are sufficiently great to make ref- 

 erence to specific cases and to different years impracticable. 

 One of the most noticeable examples of this occurs in the 

 present year in the case of potato blight. We have not seen 

 a blighted potato in the state of New York, but I find that 

 your growers have had a great deal of this disease, particularly 

 the tuber rot stage. Neither am I sufficiently familiar with the 

 general location and size of your commercial apple orchards 

 to be of particular service to you in making specific recommen- 

 dations. There are, however, certain fundamental factors 

 which will hold true in the spraying of any apple orchard and 

 it is to these factors that I would direct your attention. 



