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assigned as the cause of the spot. The disease is widespread both in 

 Europe and the United States. The variety pre-eminently subject to it 

 in the northeastern part of the U. S. is the Baldwin. Prof. Craig of 

 Ottawa, Canada, reports the spot as occurring on the Baldwin, Canada 

 Red, Northern Spy, Seek-No-Further, Tolman Sweet, Ben Davis, Fame- 

 use and others. 



Wortmann, a German investigator found that starch is present often 

 in considerable quantity, in the brown, spongy tissue while the sur- 

 rounding healthy 1 issue is almost, if not wholly destitute of starch. It 

 is believed that upon death of the cells their activities ceased and the 

 transformation of starch into sugar was arrested. This theory accounts 

 for the absence of starch from late formed spots. Several other in- 

 vestigators of this disease were. Sewart of the Geneva Experiment Sta- 

 tion, Craig of Ottawa, Canada, Lamson of the New Hampshire Station 

 and others. 



NEEDS OF MICHIGAN HORTICULTURE. 



P. L. GRANGER, LEXINGTON. 



"Michigan as a fruit state is a back number." Do you believe this? 

 Is that putting it too strong? Anyway that is the essence of a promi- 

 nent two column article in a national fruit magazine of over one hun- 

 dred thousand circulation. And the men who were responsible for that 

 expression are, I suspect, in this room at this time. Furthermore, I 

 believe that they were moi*e than half-justified in making the statement. 



Michigan has always had the reputation of being a conservative state, 

 in horticulture as in politics formerly, and that conservatism has held 

 sway to such a degree that it has developed a flare-back and almost dis- 

 membered its own supporters. We have been conservative until that 

 word has developed a meaning almost criminal. 



But I believe that an awakening is at hand and that this splendid 

 Apple Show is the inspiration for greater things in the future. You all 

 realize that fruit-growing, as an industry, is growing more highly com- 

 petitive every day. The next five years will witness greater strides 

 than the past twenty-five have. For instance, do you know that in 

 the Inland Empire of the West fifteen million apple trees will be in 

 bearing in 1015? If 25% of these produce a crop there will be 25 

 thousand cars of choice western fruit on the market in that year. Fur- 

 ther, do you realize that the men marketing that crop have the ad- 

 vantage of 10 years of progress and thousands of dollars in advertising 

 their apples and creating a market for their crop? Sunset Magazine has 

 spent 35 thousand dollars in the past six months, telling of the West 

 and its products in all the big magazines of the country. Every rail- 

 road and the fruit organizations of the Pacific Northwest have spent 

 other thousands advertising the land of the "Big Red Apple." Lastly, 

 the West has the finest fruit paper in the United States, which has 

 never paid a dollar in dividends, simply because every profit has gone 



