No. 7. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 135 



Armstrong County. Dayton, Pa. 



* * * "In regard to our success I am niucli pleased with the 

 orchard, and expect one year more will make much better improve- 

 ments. I have had some neighbors visit the orchard, but not many. 

 AVhen 1 put those apples on exhibition at the Dayton Fair, that is 

 when they commenced to look. Nine entries of sprayed apples 

 and eight red card;-;, which meant first premiums. I will have one 

 hundred and fifty bushels of good winter apples. I think I can 

 do much better in the future, for I think I can handle the chemicals 

 much better. Everybody that was present when your inspector was 

 liere was well pleased with his work." 



T. W. NEIL. 



MoorestoAvn, N. J. 



* * * ''Am sure your plan of inspecting orchards, advising 

 growers and showing them what to do, and hoAV to do it, will be of 

 vest benefit in promoting profitable fruit growing." 



W. J. SAWYEK. 



The demand for the supervision work from growers has greatly 

 increased recently. 



SUMMARY 



Number of letters written and copied 7732. 

 Number of accessions to collection 1220. 

 Number of nurseries inspected 196. 

 Number of acres inspected o,40S. 



Orchard Inspection: 



Number of apple trees inspected 896,312 



Number of pear trees inspected 94,450 



Number of peach trees inspected 238,635 



Number of plum trees inspected 81,085 



Number of cherry trees inspected 65,380 



Number of (juince trees inspected 422 



Total number of trees inspected 1,380,892 



Model Orchards: 



Number of Demonstration Orchards 247. 



Number of trees in Demonstration Orchards 151,286. 



Number of x^nblic meetings in Demonstration Orchards 567. 



Number of Supervision Orchards 975. 



Number of trees in Supervision Orchards 493,364. 



Number of days' work in Supervision Orchards 2,197. 



Eespectfully submitted, 



H. A. SURFACE, 



r^conomic Zoologist. 



