February, '10] INSPECTORS' DISCUSSION 81 



line that he will not be able to do anything else. There are many town- 

 ships in Kansas where you can raise orchards, but you would have 

 to carry water in a tin dipper to wet them. It seems to me that we are 

 just in the beginning of this kind of work. The Institute work in 

 Kansas is entirely in charge of the Agricultural College. At the last 

 Legislature $50,000 was appropriated for this purpose. 



Mr. Hitchings: This matter is of great importance to us at the 

 present time, especially in Maine. With us, our ''Institute" work is 

 carried on by the Department of Agriculture, and we are holding 

 some special ''Institutes," followed by a week of fruit shows. 



Some orchards have been inspected during the past few weeks. I 

 had a man with me and we have noticed that the majority of the trees 

 are covered with canker. The matter of holding entomological ex- 

 hibits at county fairs is very important. We have furnished such 

 exhibits for several years in our state, and at present the demand is 

 greater than we can supply. I have three sets for such purposes, con- 

 taining forty-eight mounts. We exhibited at thirty different fairs this 

 past year, and did not nearly fill the demands. 



In regard to orchard inspections, there is a great demand which we 

 cannot fill. They do not know what to do with their orchards in Maine 

 and are anxious to find out. 



Mr. Taft : In Michigan the ' ' Peach Yellows ' ' has been known for 

 twenty-five years and the "Little Peach" some fifteen years. So far 

 as the state inspection goes, we do a large amount of work throughout 

 the nurseries. The orchards are inspected by local inspectors. Three 

 inspectors are appointed in each township, and we are fully satisfied 

 that' they are competent. It is often necessary to take new inspectors 

 into the orchard for a day or more in order to point out the proper 

 course to be pursued. In Michigan we bring the work of the "Insti- 

 tutes" and inspectors close together, and, furthermore, the appoint- 

 ment of the speakers at the institutes, as well as all the inspectors of 

 the state, are in my own hands, and I am thus able to use quite a num- 

 ber of nursery inspectors as institute lecturers. They are competent 

 to discuss fruit growing and matters of that kind, and in the spring 

 months hold their demonstration meetings in the orchards. Many 

 inspectors are very competent for this work. 



We have several hundred townships where we have a board of three 

 inspectors. It would not be possible for us to carry on this work with, 

 the state inspectors only. 



We have four hundred and twenty-five "Institutes" throughout 

 the winter, and perhaps sixty or seventy railroad "Institutes," and 

 nearly all of these are well attended. 



