333 State Board of Agriculture, &c. 



brain, the bcibitual use of apples as an article of food is 

 greatly to be recommended. Anothei" substance so desli-able 

 to promote health, found in the apple, is the acid it contains 

 valuable to rouse the liver from its sluggish condition. 



Thus, while the brain is the all important organ with 

 those who are known as ^reat thinkers, it is of the first 

 importance to this class to make use of all the means within, 

 their power to preserve in health and vigor this essential 

 organ. Therefore fresh fruits, of the several kinds which 

 are adapted to our climate and locality, and which can be 

 so easily and so readily raised by the farmers of Vermont, 

 should constitute an important element in the daily fare of 

 all mankind. And we believe it to be within the means of 

 nineteen-twentieths of all the farmers in Vermont to raise 

 the necessary amount of fruit for home consumption, with 

 scarcely the slightest embarrassment. 



A few hints in regard to the variety of fruit and the man- 

 ner of cultivation may be in place. The selection of trees 

 may be varied according to locality. And here, let me state,, 

 comes in one of tbe greatest mistakes among orchardists, 

 as well as among our common farmers, and which has had a 

 tendency to weaken, if not to destroy the confidence of the 

 majority of farmers throughout Vermont. They have been 

 so frequently imposed upon by fruit tree venders, that their 

 courage is nearly exhausted. By those agents whose mission 

 it is to coin as many dollars as possible, with the least expense 

 to themselves, many varieties have been introduced which 

 are as useless to the farmer, here in Central Vermont, as 

 June bugs are to a winter squash, or the modern pest to the 

 success of the currant. How few among the vast number 



