No. 7. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 681 



they may not know how to spray thoroughly. So it was decided to 

 organize a course of inspection in this State to be made by a re- 

 liable corps of demonstrators under the supervision of the Division 

 of Zoology of the Department of Agriculture. Since inaugurating 

 this inspection we have inspected 4,5U0,0U0 apple trees, over 2,500,- 



000 peach trees, and over one-third of a million pear trees, and nearly 

 a million of plum and other trees, making a grand total of over 8,- 

 000,000 trees. And some counties we have not entered because we 

 did not have the funds to extend the work. As to value, would you 

 let a man cut down one of your fruit trees for five dollars? No 

 man with even the slightest knowledge of the value of a tree would 

 do that, but taking that low figure as a basis, I will state as my 

 opinion that there are over |100,000,000 worth of fruit trees in the 

 State of Pennsylvania to-day, and there is considerable more plant- 

 ing being done. Nurserymen will tell you that five, six, or even ten 

 years ago their sales fell off considerably, but to-day they will tell 

 you, also, that for the past two or three years their sales have been 

 larger than for the six or eight years previous. What does this 

 mean? The people are taking courage. A way has been found to 

 control the scale, and with the scale under control we will soon 

 have as fine orchards as there are to be found anywhere, producing 

 a first class quality of fruit. 



In speaking of this work, I should like to show you these pictures. 



1 will leave them here, so that those of you who wish to do so, can 

 look at them at noon. They are pictures of the Demonstration train 

 on the Cumberland Valley Railroad. The Cumberland Valley Rail- 

 road placed at our disposal for over three weeks, this train, consist- 

 ing of a baggage car and passenger car, and from this train we 

 talked to large numbers of farmers showing how the trees were to 

 be treated. You will see how interested the people were, and how 

 thev even stood out in the rain for hours to hear us talk, and fol- 

 lowed us from place to place in many instances. It simply shows 

 that our fruit growers are in earnest, and that is a hopeful sign. I 

 think, Mr. President, this will be a very good place for me to stop. 



My chief justification in saying anything about this subject what- 

 ever, is that these Demonstration Orchards have been established in 

 different counties of this State, which show what has been already 

 done, and what still remains to be done in the future, and what re- 

 sults may be expected. Many persons have already seen them, and 

 have seen what has been done; and what has already been done can 

 be done again. 



I am surprised at the enthusiasm manifested ; I have seen crowds 

 stand for hours iu snow and rain, and many of them have followed 

 us from place to place, to try to learn what they can of this work, 

 and these men are all practical men. When we give a demonstra- 

 tion of this kind in a real fruit-producing community, and the atten- 

 tion of the public becomes drawn to this fact, the gratifying result 

 is that almost every time we have larger audiences than previously 

 in the same community. That has been the record ever -since we 

 made our first demonstration with a barrel pump and a one horse 

 wagon. 



