496 ANNUAL, REPORT OF TPIE Off. Dec. 



GENERAL ORCHARD MANAGEMENT. 



Prof. CHARX.es S. WILSON, Ithaca, N. Y., Department of Horticulture, Cornell University. 



I want to say that it is a great pleasure for me to come down 

 from the State of New York to visit and see the organization which 

 you have here. For the last three years I have been connected more 

 or less with a county association in New York State, The Ontario 

 County Fruit Growers Association. I took an active part in the 

 organization of that association three years ago. Our annual meet- 

 ing was held about two weeks ago, and at that meeting I had the 

 pleasure of looking over the faces of about two hundred of the 

 interested fruit growers of the county. Our labors had been great, 

 but the pleasure and gratification of looking over the faces of 

 those real growers was something that made us feel duly paid. 

 Now, here you have a similar county organization. You have one, 

 however, which is better than ours. You have more members. Per- 

 haps in the organization of this meeting you have also felt that 

 sometimes the work was strenuous, but it certainly must be a great 

 gratification to those who have been actively engaged in the work 

 here to look over the faces of members this morning. I want to 

 congratulate you on the success of this meeting. Moreover, I want 

 to say that the Fruit Growers Association of Adams county is known 

 not only in Adams county, not only in the State of Pennsylavnia 

 but far beyond Pennsylvania. This reputation is going to bring 

 you greater returns. If any of you are not members, join a Fruit 

 Growers Association. Get in the ranks and help the fruit growers. 

 Here you can do a great deal more good than is possible to imagine. 



Prof. Craig was to address you this morning. You are disap- 

 pointed that he cannot come. I am disappointed too in one way, 

 and yet, personally, I am glad that it is my privilege to be here in 

 his place. 



I have a few apples, nothing of any real value, but something 

 that may interest you, simply a few that I could get in the little 

 time I had to prepare. We have an annual exhibition up at Cornell, 

 and at that exhibition we get different varieties from our own State 

 and also from all parts of the country. I have a few of the typical 

 fruits from different sections of the United States. As I started 

 from home I put these in my suit case. I have a Ben Davis apple 

 here from three different states. Here is one grown in Adams 

 county. Here a Ben Davis grown in the State of Utah. It is a 

 little different in form, not quite so highly colored and I suppose 

 there is some little difference in quality. Here is a Ben Davis from 

 Arizona, away up in the mountains and you would not recognize it 

 as the Ben Davis variety. Here is a Ben Davis grown in the arid 

 and irrigated part of Arizona. You hear a great deal about western 

 apples that are grown out in the State of Washington and Oregon. 

 There seemed to be some doubt about the real existence of the 

 State of Washington. I am going one step farther than the last 

 speaker and say that there is a State of Washington, and I can show 

 you fruit from the State of Washington. 



We hear a great deal of the Western grown fruit. Oregon apples 

 are advertised widely. Wherever we get a specimen it is a great 

 big specimen. Now, Oregon can grow some varieties of apples and 

 grow fine ones, beating us here. On the other hand, we can 



