No. 7. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 635 



ceived from your fruit trees with those of the general farm crops 

 on the rest of vour farm. It is scarcely worth my while to give you 

 figures hut let me tell you that the attention of America is being 

 turned to Pennsylvania, because of the magnificent fruit our people 

 are growing — as fine as anything the West ever produced. In our 

 fruits we can produce the size and color and we have also the qual- 

 ity, and we save over fifty cents per bushel in freight. I know of 

 three men who are now selling their Western fruit lands to come 

 to Pennsylvania to grow fruit. I have here a letter from a man 

 who has sold his Oregon lands at |2,000 an acre to come here for 

 this purpose. "W'e have all the possibilities of success. We have 

 the climate; we have the soil to grow fruit; it simply takes modern 

 methods to develop it. If the average Eastern man were to go West 

 and attempt to grow fruit in the same slip-shod manner that he 

 does here, he would fail ; and on the other hand, if the Western 

 man were to come here with his methods, he would be able to grow 

 more and better fruit, Avithout the expense of shipment. The chief 

 effort of the latter would be directed toward more thorough pest 

 control. 



Seeing the danger of these pests, we commenced to spray with 

 the lime-sulphur solution to control them. At first we had to con- 

 sider it in the light of an experiment, because we did not then know 

 whether it was right. The office of your Economic Zoologist was 

 among the first to advocate it, and what is the result? You have 

 heard it at this meeting. There are orchards in this State that were 

 thoroughly infected with scale, but which are now absolutely free, 

 and producing magnificent fruit. We are receiving letters from 

 Kansas, Iowa, Texas, Virginia and Ohio, inquiring regarding the 

 fruit lands of Pennsylvania, and in most of them they say they 

 have been attracted to this state by our demonstration work. In 

 this, as in other things, the pioneer must necessarily bear the blunt 

 of blazing the trail. 



(Map showing location of demonstration orchards shown here.) 



In addition to this list of demonstration orchards, Ave have over 

 eleven hundred farms as supervision orchards. We are gratified to 

 learn of this success. I will call on two or three of my inspectors 

 to take a few minutes of my time to tell you some of the results 

 they find. 



Taking some of the counties in order, we find in Adams, at Mr. 

 Lupp's orchard, one year ago we had a few, a very few persons 

 present at the demonstration meeting; this year we have received 

 eighteen difi'erent requests from the toAvn of Biglersville alone, ask- 

 ing us to undertake the supervision of their orchards. 



Allegheny. — Oakdale Orchard Co., Major Nesbit: Some of these 

 trees were cut back one-third, and Major Nesbit reports that the 

 result last year was certainly fine. 



Arinstionrj. — Kev. Mr. Kerr reports that the work of the demon- 

 strators is serving as an inspiration, and they are waking up to the 

 needs of tree pruning, fertilizing and cultivation. "This work has 

 been of untold assistance to the citizens of Pennsylvania." 



Berks. — One of my inspectors receiA^ed this communication: "You 

 no doubt remember that you conducted a public demonstration in 

 my orchard, and you will perhaps remember how discouraged I was, 



