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RESULTS IN 1912 AT HIGHMOOR FARM. 



By G. A. Yeaton. 



Mr. President, Brothers and Sisters of the State Pomological 

 Society: 



y^ou have been talked almost to death. Everybody has talked 

 to you. They talk to you downstairs. They talk to you up- 

 stairs. They have played the organ, they have done almost 

 everything, and the only hopes that I have of your staying 

 here is that the door is going to be locked so that you can't 

 dbdge. But I will tell you another thing, that I am not going 

 to make any long talk at all, for I realize the fact that you are 

 very tired indeed and that it has been a strenuous week for 

 us all. Unfortunately I have not written out any of the talk 

 that I am going to make. It is simply facts as they have been 

 presented to us through the orchard that I am going to talk 

 to you about. 



In the first place Dr. Morse reviewed the situation very thor- 

 oughly tliis morning. The very best that I can do is practically 

 to give you a repetition of what he said. I am going to tell 

 you some of the things that have been accomplished. 



When the State took over the farm three or four years ago 

 the orchard was in a very serious condition indeed. It was on 

 the verge of collapse. The trees had been neglected. Many of 

 them had made but a trifling growth for a number of years 

 previous. The roots were just barely holding the life in the 

 tops and not making any growth whatever, just simply existing, 

 lingering at this poor dying rate. The State took them over and 

 commenced to fertilize, prune, spray, and cultivate, and did a 

 work of regeneration. To prove that that was the right thing to 

 do, — the first crop was less than 200 barrels and of that only 



