INDIANA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 347 



Buehels Acren 



Conntits. of Apples. of Fonsts. 



Allen G,170 29,876 



Crawford 9,894 22,374 



Harrison 57,241 40,125 



Kosciusko 721 24,052 



Laporte 1,304 17,490 



Ripley 7,030 27,079 



St. Joseph 980 9,463 



Steuben 432 1,746 



Sullivan 13,123 9,718 



Washington 8,202 42,381 



Wayne 3,803 7,718 



"From these figures it appears that the counties now exhibiting the 

 largest falling off in their apple crops show nearly corresponding reduc- 

 tion in their forest areas (Allen, Sullivan, Steuben, KosciusliO, St. Joseph). 

 Similar conditions are not found all over the State, but it is certainly 

 suggestive that those counties that formerly produced the largest apple 

 crops and have suffered most from deforestation have fallen to the end of 

 the list in their yield of apples (Steuben, Sullivan, St. Joseph, Allen), and 

 the importance of the forest becomes the more significant when we dis- 

 cover that of the counties formerly producing the largest crops those 

 have fallen off the least that have removed the smallest amount of timber 

 (Crawford, Harrison, Laporte, Ripley, Washington)." 



You can not remember all these statistics, but the report goes on to 

 show that as forests decreased in acreage the apple crop likewise de- 

 creased in production. Mr. Thomas is a man who conducts and has 

 charge of the chair of forestry in Wabash College, and has spent ten 

 years of his time in close observation, and gives the above as the result. 



As foi'estry proceeds, and we have reasonable assurance that it will 

 proceed, we hope that the relations will become stronger because of the 

 demonstration which will take place both in tree growing and in soil re- 

 lation to trees. Forestry is yet in its infancy. When it becomes thor- 

 oughly established— which I believe it will— then it will become like the 

 experimental stations in agriculture, as to soil investigation and tree 

 growing. Along with that will come the various studies and experiments 

 in dealing with insects and spraying. New York State is probably mak- 

 ing the most progi-ess of any State in the Union in dealing with insects, 

 although the United States Bureau is doing a great deal of work, and 

 if any one of you will write to William F. Fox, the State Forester, 

 Albany, N. Y., who has just recently issued a publication on the insects 

 that attack maples, and their remedies, you will get a very interesting 

 publication. Indiana has suffered gi'eatly the past year from maple in- 

 sects and maple borers; indeed, our State has suffered more than any 



