84 agriculture; of maine. 



the next slide shows two years' growth in the same nursery, 

 and the one following three years' growth. 



In our experimental work we have been attempting to estab- 

 lish, just as our speaker has demonstrated to us today, the value 

 of special stock, and we have at home what we term selected 

 stock. We have scions growing from the noted $50 Spy tree, 

 from Uncle Solon Chase's orchard. We have the so-called 

 Lowell Baldwin, a strain of Baldwins, the finest in the State. 

 We have Wealthy stock selected from right up in God's sun- 

 light in the top of a tree that has borne the best crops of 

 Wealthy apples for the last ten years. And I believe that is 

 the way for us to work. I hope you will all take the lesson 

 that was given you this evening, and when you are top-working 

 your orchards select your scions up in the top of the tree, don't 

 reach for them on the ground; get the best that there are and 

 set them as selected stock. 



We now have a Lowell Baldwin scion, set this year. The 

 scion has made a growth of three feet this season, and fully 

 ripened, to the tip. This is one of many trees in an experi- 

 mental plot that we are trying and every Lowell scion set this 

 year has made that stocky growth. And that is what a selected 

 stock will do. You dairymen don't go out and buy scrub stock. 

 Why do you set any old thing for a scion in your orchard? 



Here is an ordinary cold storage building that any farmer 

 can construct, showing apples that are hauled in and kept in 

 storage waiting for a better market. 



This represents a cold storage plant, probably the most noted 

 in the world, at Hilton, N. Y., fifteen miles north of Rochester. 

 About thirty farmers united to build this cold storage plant. 

 It was completed last year at a cost of $120,000, and has a 

 capacity of 65,000 barrels. They can keep the temperature in 

 the upper story as cool as in the lower, and that will average 

 anywhere from 30 to 32 degrees the year round, if they want 

 tc keep it there. They charge 40 cents a barrel for storage for 

 apples. That is what they are doing in this little section. 



The last view shows you something of Nature's painting. The 

 blossoms and fruit here shown can only be fully appreciated 

 and enjoyed by those who are near to Nature's heart. 



