STATE POMOLOGICAL bOCIETY. II9 



each year pruning his orchard of an acre in those small trees. 

 Of course that was entirely out of reason. Nobody in the con- 

 test put in that much time. Most of them didn't put it in during 

 the whole contest. 



I would say that in our scoring, in addition to the seven prize 

 winners, there were about twenty more orchards that scored 

 over 900. Perhaps 150 scored less than 900 on a basis of 1000. 



Now just a word in regard to the s^econd contest. The appli- 

 cation blanks for this contest are available now. We have 

 some here and any man may obtain one by writing to the Depart- 

 ment. They are just simply application blanks to be filled out 

 and sent to the Department, stating that a grower wishes to enter 

 the contest. It is the plan now to send out at the beginning of 

 each year the cost sheet, to be filled in as the season advances, 

 by the grower himself — probably two sheets, one for the actual 

 cost of the work done on the trees, and the other for his cost 

 in his cropping system, so that the cropping system may be kept 

 entirely separate from the trees themselves. You understand 

 that this contest has a two- fold advantage. It has the advantage 

 to the grower of competing for a prize or a series of prizes ; and 

 it has the advantage to the Department, and of course to the 

 other growers who are not contestants, of finding out the net 

 cost of producing an orchard for five years under different con- 

 ditions and with dififerent varieties handled by dififerent men. 

 Those figures can be made of much value to the people of the 

 state and perhaps to growers outside the state. In order to do 

 that we must have accurate cost, and it is our plan this 

 time to perhaps apply enough red tape to get as near as we can 

 some good figures. Wq realize the trouble with these figures 

 is that they are not accurate, and what we want to find out is 

 the exact cost entailed, and we have drawn up some regulations 

 to be filled by the people who wish to enter next time. These 

 regulations are in the rough at present. We plan to have a 

 report sheet sent out to each grower at the beginning of each 

 season. We took the liberty to put in a score card, inasmuch 

 as most of the growers this time did not know what the items to 

 be considered were, so that they did not know where to put in 

 most of their time anv more than to carrv their trees as well 

 as they could. We have put in a score card very similar to the 



