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terested and ought to help out. My plan is that the Board 

 will cooperate with the Fruit Growers' Association by 

 furnishing blanks for this census, and would like to have one 

 man in a town who would be responsible for the apple census 

 in that town, to have him call a meeting of every person 

 who owns five or more apple trees of bearing age, and blanks 

 Avill be furnished that man for distribution, and when they 

 get together, the varieties are to be put down, the number 

 of trees, their age, the last crop and any other information 

 which might be of use, all to be supplied in that blank. Then 

 the person taking the census tabulates the information on 

 another blank, and returns it to our office, where it will be 

 filed. Next year it will be necessary to call that same num- 

 ber together, and the original census-taker will get out a 

 blank, the blank which they had last year, and at the end of 

 July or around that time a fair estimate of the crop can be 

 made, and that will be based practically on the actual num- 

 ber of bearing trees in the State. Now, the Government es- 

 timate taken from the census says, ' ' This town or that town 

 contains so many apple trees"; but that doesn't mean any- 

 thing. They may be .trees that are dead or never amounted 

 to anything one way or another, but still they are counted. 

 1 believe that we can get at this information and I believe 

 the Board can help you if you are vrilling to cooperate. The 

 idea I have advanced may not be perfect, but I wish to put it 

 up to you and say that we will be very glad to help it out 

 and do the tabulating work which may be necessary. 



QUESTION : Is this not State Census Year, and so far 

 as the first part of this proposition is concerned, couldn't it 

 be more accurately taken by the State census-takers? Of 

 course, I agree with the idea of having some representative 

 of this Association in each town. 



MR. WHEELER: I don't believe the census-takers can 

 do it, because of the fact that any kind of person who can 

 read or write can take an ordinary census. What we want is 

 a real apple census. The ordinary census man goes around, 

 and the man he goes to answers him »nd says, "I have 100 



