8o AGRICuiTURE OF MAINE;. 



fruit rots, later in the season. For the apple scab, these sprays 

 should be applied after the blossoms have fallen, and again 

 in ten days. 



New England has excellent soil and climatic conditions for 

 the production of high grade apples. It is only necessary to 

 use the better methods required to meet the greater exactions 

 of the markets of present times, when every acre of land de- 

 voted to orchards will bring satisfactory returns to those who 

 possess them. 



With the educational work that is being done by this State 

 Association, together with that of the other organizations of 

 the State, Maine may in the future more than double her or- 

 chards, and the income that may be derived from them. 



President Twitchell : Maine is fortunate, ladies and gen- 

 tlemen, in the man who has been selected by the Commissioner 

 of Agriculture to stand at the head of the department of ento- 

 mology at Augusta ; a man who has been trained from his boy- 

 hood through innate love for the work ; a man who has been 

 ready at all times to answer any call and to assist anywhere 

 and everywhere. This meeting could not have been the suc- 

 cess it is but for the services and the co-operation of this official, 

 and it gives me great pleasure, as one of his associates, to pre- 

 sent him as the speaker of the evening — Prof. Hitchings, a good 

 worker for the promotion of pomology and protection from our 

 insect pests. 



A HALF HOUR AMONG MAINE ORCHARDS IN 1910. 



Illustrated by Stereopticon. 



By Prof. E. F. Hitchings. 

 (Extracts from stenographic report.) 

 In regard to this movement for better fruit — as many of you 

 know it started with the New England Fruit Show last year 

 and that movement has spread in one short year so that its 

 influence extends, I think, from Maine to Oregon. It surely 

 covers New England and our sister states New York and New 

 Jersey. 



