82 AGRICULTURE OF MAINE. 



Prof Blair: If you write to the Air Tight Steel Tank Co., 

 Pittsburg, Penn., they will send you a catalogue. The whole 

 thing is simply this, the liquid is forced out under a certain air 

 pressure and then there is another lead of hose to carry the air 

 up to the nozzle, and as the liquid emerges through the nozzle 

 at, say, 80 lbs. pressure, this air jet at 80 lbs. pressure strikes the 

 liquid and assists in making it into a mist. We think a whole 

 lot of the pump but it may not be better than some of the others. 



SMALL FRUIT CULTURE. 



By J. H. Putnam, Litchfield, Conn. 



I am glad to come up here today and to bring to you the greet- 

 ings of the Connecticut Pomological Society. 



I have been asked to speak on the subject of small fruits. 

 The interest in fruit growing has increased at a tremendous 

 rate in the last few years. Especially in apples and large fruits 

 has this been so. But this means also an increase in interest in 

 the small fruits, because lots of these large fruits don't pay at 

 first. While the orchardists are waiting for the large fruits to 

 come into bearing they want to produce something that will 

 give them quick returns, and they become interested in small 

 fruit growing. I think we need not be afraid of this. While 

 this year there may seem to be a little over-production, we need 

 not be afraid of this sweeping enthusiasm in fruit growing which 

 is going on all over the country. 



Bacon wrote, "When ages grow to civility and elegance, men 

 come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as though 

 gardening were the greater excellence." History has proved 

 this to be true. It is only when the development of the sciences 

 gives us the keys to nature's secrets, when the study of the fine 

 arts has created a refined taste, and when the development of 

 manufactories and the extension of commerce have created the 

 wealth to purchase, that the united application of art, science 

 and distribution to agriculture gives us the finished product of 

 the modern skilled fruit grower. 



In the growing of fruit the first thing to be considered, as 

 in any other business, is the man, the individual. Some people 



