2G8 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



worthless hills can be utilized to a protit iu this industry. Our govern- 

 ment at Washington will gladly give you the benefit of their experi- 

 ments, and if you think this amounts to nothing I would suggest that 

 you pay a visit to the orchards of States that think different, and see 

 the contrast. It has been shown that with proper care apple trees in 

 other States bear a fair crop every year, and I believe they will do so in 

 Indiana. But you must be practical to raise fruit. You must first raise 

 the tree and then it must be cared for. If sucli subjects as spraying, 

 cover crops, proper pruning and intelligent cultivation are to be set aside 

 as the hobby and theory of the college dude and denounced as impractical, 

 without consideration, we are going to make slow progress. 



Let us ascertain what other States do for the advancement of this 

 work, and I am sure our State will do as much. There is today many 

 young apple trees coming on and it is the duty of this Society to see 

 that the owners of these trees have the latest and most scientific knowl- 

 edge on the culture of same. Our State should look to Purdue University 

 for an active interest in this subject. Other States are carefully teaching 

 agriculture and horticulture. What study can be more healthy, more 

 elevating and more practical? ■ What study today presents to the youth 

 a more independent future than advanced and scientific farming? Cities 

 build for future generations and it is the duty we owe to the youth to 

 see that this work is carried forward in an aggressive and advanced 

 manner. Governor Mount advocated the teaching of agriculture in our 

 public schools and many scoffed at the idea, and yet I had the pleasure 

 about that time of reading an article in one of our leading commercial 

 papers, stating that the Czar of Russia had made it one of the leading 

 studies in his public schools. 



I will conclude my remarks by saying I travel all apple growing dis- 

 tricts, and have endeavored to confine my remarks to personal observa- 

 tions. 



STORING AND MARKETING ARRLES. 



BY H. H. SWAIM, SOUTH BEND. 



For the commercial orchardist the problem of storing and marketing 

 fruit has been very much simplified by the advent of the cold stoi-age 

 system, by Avhich apples can be kept the year around, thus equalizing 

 prices and giving a mudi longer time in wliicli to dispose of them. P>ut 

 for the man with a small orchard who sells in his local market this is 

 hardly practicable; he must store his fruit ii])on the farm or sell at pick- 

 ing time, which is the season of the lowest prices. 



