STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. II3 



report some things that may be of value to the man that is start- 

 ing an orchard, including the distance apart of trees of various 

 varieties, and how many trees it requires per acre set at various 

 distances. 



After we completed scoring we found that the prizes had 

 been awarded practically as they are on the chart. Mr. Hobbs, 

 first, with an orchard in Knox county; Mr. Dollofif, second, in 

 Cumberland county ; ^Ir. Morse, third, in Oxford county ; Mrs. 

 Bragger, fourth, in Penobscot county ; Mr. Hescock, fifth, in 

 Piscataquis county; Mr Bearce, sixth, in Oxford county, and 

 Mr. Morrell, seventh, in W^aldo county. You will see that the 

 orchards winning the prizes were pretty well distributed. Ox- 

 ford county was the only one where two orchards were located. 

 There should have been eight prizes awarded, but one of the 

 concerns had some special requirements and they were not lived 

 up to well enough, so that the prizes could be awarded. It is 

 hoped that that prize can be carried over to the next contest. 



I have tried to get as near as I could the costs that were 

 entailed in producing the orchards that won prizes and, while 

 the figures are not perfect, while they are not complete, they do 

 show some things that may be of interest and may help the 

 person that is starting next time in estimating about what it is 

 going to cost to carry on the orchard. 



In the first place, most of these orchards were carried on with 

 a system of cropping. The first, second, fourth and fifth were 

 carried on practically the entire time with some crop. The third 

 orchard was carried on practically with a mulch, after the first 

 year, I think. The last orchard was carried on by strict culti- 

 vation, just plowing alongside the trees and keeping a narrow 

 strip cultivated, increasing that strip each year. Most of these 

 orchards were sprayed four years, some of them were only 

 sprayed three years, and all but one, I think, were sprayed four 

 years. The owners used various materials, most of them, 

 arsenate of lead, and many of them, lime sulphur; of course, 

 for the aphis there were various materials, — practically all the 

 materials that we use for that purpose. The Bragger orchard 

 was set as whips and the others were all two-year-old trees. 



