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securing better recognition from our legislature, and will therefore be 

 able to increase our operations along these lines. 



It has been gratifying indeed to receive many letters from sections 

 where spraying demonstrations have been given, speaking of the good 

 results secured from the first attempts at spraying, and of plans to do 

 the Avork more thoroughly in succeeding years. 



Four times as many requests for our services have been received 

 during the present year than in any one other year of the work. This 

 encourages us to continue on a larger scale the methods in vogue. 



Dr. J. B. Smith : I wonder how many of us have run across the 

 same trouble that is mentioned in this paper ; that is, the failure on the 

 part of the orchardist to ask for an inspection. I know that this is the 

 failing of a good many in New Jersey, and I wonder whether the 

 accounts which were published at the beginning of this work concern- 

 ing orchards, which we ordered to be taken up, has been gotten up in 

 such a shape as to make it difficult for the true condition of the work 

 to reach the farmers and fruit growers. Sometimes a statement of 

 that kind is taken up by horticulturists, and it takes a long, long time 

 to outgrow it. We find that difficulty in New Jersey. 



If we had a law requiring an inspection of every orchard, it would 

 greatly facilitate matters. We find a whole lot of people who are 

 willing to take advantage of it. 



Mr. Worsham : We notice that when a request is made for an in- 

 spection it is usually for an inspection of a neighbor's orchard. A man 

 knows the condition of his own orchard, and he does everything in his 

 power to increase its growth, but he usually comes around and makes 

 a request for an inspection of his neighbor's orchard. We are aware 

 of scale being present in most orchards, as it is in almost every fruit- 

 growing section of the state. 



Mr. Headlee: The Farmers' Institute in Kansas has a special 

 agent connected with the Agricultural College, and has been able to 

 engage a practical, up-to-date horticulturist. This man goes about do- 

 ing their ' ' Institute ' ' work, and doing the same kind of work as men- 

 tioned by Mr. Shaw. The work which this man has to do is very inter- 

 esting. As to the demands on his time as a consultant agent, he is 

 not greatly in demand. The people do not realize as yet what good 

 fruit growing means. We are educating them up to the point where 

 they will realize it, and it is done through this Institute. This man goes 

 to every county during the year, and comes in personal contact with 

 the people, and in the next two or three years he will be so busy in this 



