92 stath: pomological society. 



5. Record your obserr'afions. In order to obtain an accurate 

 idea of the value of the experiment, a profit-and-loss account 

 should be kept. Charge the field with cost of labor and mate- 

 rials used, and credit it with the returns. An immediate response 

 in the way of a crop of fruit should not be expected — this should 

 come the second year — but the trees will, in the meantime, take 

 on renewed vigor and appearance of health. — John Craig, Cor- 

 nell University. 



FRUIT SPECIALISTS. 



Prof. Green of Minnesota is quoted as saying that the time is 

 coming when fruit will be grown only by specialists. He saysi — 

 or it is said that he says — that the ordinary man is too careless 

 and shiftless and ineffectual in his treatment of fruit trees. He 

 cannot compete with the man who makes a specialty of fruit- 

 growing, and who cares for his orchards in the best ways known. 

 Prof. Green is perfectly safe in such a prediction. In fact he 

 might pass it for a statement of present fact and not be so very 

 far wrong. There are still a good many farmers who grow fruit 

 as a ''side line'' without any particular care for the best methods ; 

 but any one may observe that they cut a wonderfully small figure 

 in the markets. A good illustration of the situation came to 

 notice last fall. In one neighborhood the apple buyers were 

 thick and prices were good — $1.50 to $3 a barrel. In another 

 neighborhood in the same state, apples were rotting on the 

 ground by the hundreds of bushels, and prices ranged from 75 

 cents a barrel down to nothing at all, with the barrel thrown in. 

 The difference was merely that the former neighborhood had a 

 reputation for apples based on the careful work of many pro- 

 fessional apple gro\vers ; Avhile the other neighborhood, had 

 grown its apples "on the side." — Country Gentleman^ 



