6c agriculture; oi- maine. 



nounced his magnificent gift before others joined in the move- 

 ment. The following is a list of premiums ofifered. 



GREGORY PREMIUMS. 



Better Fruit for Maine. 



The following premiums are offered for the best acre of 

 apple trees set in the spring of 1910 and judged in 5 years: 



1st, James J. H. Gregory prize $200 



2nd, Premium by a friend 150 



3rd, Bowker Co 100 



4th, B. G. Pratt Co 100 



5th, ^ Douglas Pump Co 100 



6th, Deming Pump Co., Salem, Ohio. ... 50 

 7th, Chas. J. Jager Co., Boston, Mass. ... 50 



8th, Portland Farmers' Club 50 



Registration blanks were sent out and have been returned to 

 the office to be kept on file. 



Owing to a scarcity of nursery stock many who contemplated 

 entering the contest were unable to do so. 



GREGORY INSPECTION. 



As soon as the annual nursery inspection was begun it was 

 thought best to make an inspection of the registered orchards, 

 so the two were combined, requiring but one trip for the com- 

 plete record. 



My other duties have been so urgent that this work has mostly 

 fallen to my assistant. Much extra time has been spent, as it 

 often required many hours of evening work in order to get 

 around in time for the next day's trip. Much credit is due 

 Mr. Yeaton for his faithful work along this line. If he wasn't 

 an enthusiast along orchard lines much valuable data would be 

 lacking. 



In the inspection much of interest has been gathered, of 

 which we note the following: 



Insect Injury. — Most of the insect injury is with the green 

 apple aphis, which was noticed in almost every orchard. In 

 one orchard the Saddled Prominent (Heterocampa guttivitta) 

 had stripped several trees (this is the only record of the kind 

 that has come to our notice this year). Climbing cut worms 



