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of Pennsylvania, who is actually making good, in a modest way, on 

 a little bit of God's green earth. I'd like to see that man; wouldn't 

 you ? And I believe that a plan of that sort, properly worked out, 

 would call the attention of our whole population to our farm condi- 

 tions in Pennsylvania, would result in all the necessary remedial 

 legislation that we have a right to seek, and start this work under 

 Secretary Patton and the new Commission on a road of development 

 and of progress and of health to the farmers of Pennsylvania in a 

 way better than any other that I can conceive of. If you know of 

 a better thing to do, if you think of a better plan, let us have it, we 

 want it. 



Now, finally, therefore, this being all, sums itself up into the one 

 thought in my soul. I want the service of the Commonwealth, for 

 which I am in a large measure responsible, to make good on the soil 

 of Pennsylvania, to count in the increase of the crops of the farmers 

 of Pennsylvania, to count in the cheapening of the cost of food in 

 the congested centers of our population, and to bring about such a 

 co-operation and sympathy between the rural and the urban popula- 

 tions of the Commonwealth that every thing that counts for the good 

 of one shall count for the betterment of the other; that we shall build 

 up here in Pennsylvania a solidarity of population and a sympathy 

 and co-operation that will make all of us increasingly proud of the 

 grand old Commonwealth that God has put in our hands to care 

 for. Thank you very kindly for your courtesy this morning. (Ap- 

 plause.) 



KEPORT OF POMOLOGIST FOR 1915 



By CHESTER J. TYSON 



Your Pomologist is again confronted with the problem of making 

 a report that will be of some value to the Board, at the same time 

 coming within the scope of his observation and knowledge. There 

 has been neither provision nor opportunity for extended survey or 

 research, and this raises the question whether a purely scientific 

 Pomologist, with research material at hand, might not better serve 

 the Board than a plain apple grower can do. The report of the 

 apple grower is bound to review the business rather than the science 

 of Pomology. Moreover, the commercial apple grower finds it nearly 

 impossible to confine his observations to conditions in Pennsylvania 

 alone. The subject is so broad and the scope of the business is 

 so far reaching, that state lines cannot bound it. So closely are the 

 interests of the difl'erent sections interwoven, and so generally are 

 the same large markets used by all, that general consideration of 

 country-wide conditions seems wise and most likely to bear fruit. 



