STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. Ill 



trees to a farm and properly cared for, in fifteen years' time they 

 would pay for all the cost and be worth two hundred dollars an acre, 

 and the combined value would be more than all the farms of the 

 State at the present time. The product of these trees would be 

 greater than the yearly agricultural products of Maine. Over-pro- 

 duction, exclaim some, but before fifteen years have expired the 

 farmer will know nothing of over-production in any line of agricul- 

 ture. We do not realize how last the demand increases. As men 

 grow wiser the consumption of fruit increases much faster than the 

 population, and ere another decade is gone a large part of the money 

 now paid for patent medicines, will be exchanged for berries, pears 

 and apples. There will be twelve hundred thousand people more 

 in the United States to eat the next apple crop than there were to 

 eat the last, and in fifteen 3ears' time we shall add to our population 

 sixteen million fruit consumers, who with their increased wisdom in 

 regard to diet, will do away with all fear of over-production. 



