24 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



The point to which we desire to draw particular atten- 

 tion, however, is the average size of the orchards of our larger 

 fruit orrowers. If we take the owners havingf over ten acres 

 of apples or of peaches separately, we shall find that there 

 are 37 apple growers with 1,361 acres of trees, an average 

 of 37 acres each, and Zo peach growers with 1,982 acres of 

 trees, an average of 57 acres each. These figures are large 

 from whatever point of view they are regarded, and seem to 

 indicate conclusively that our members who are making a 

 business of growing apples or peaches are finding .it profitable 

 work and are willing to invest a substantial amount of capital 

 in it. 



Your committee recommends that increased efforts be 

 made to give to the agriculture of this state that high posi- 

 tion with it should hold in the estimation of the country at 

 large. In this work it should be understood that the assis- 

 tance of every member is essential, especially in the distribu- 

 tion of the bulletins. 



Your committee's chief difficulty is, however, in supplying 

 definite and reliable information upon the different sections of 

 the state. While a good many of our enquiries can be turned 

 over to the Board of Agriculture, the Experiment Stations, 

 and other bodies more competent than your committee to deal 

 with them, yet one very important handicap has been felt in 

 the lack of a government soil survey of the state. Such a 

 survey has been published covering the northern part of the 

 Connecticut River valley, and one of Windham County has 

 recently been completed and is now being prepared for publi- 

 cation. Your committee believes, however, that no other 

 one thing would be useful to non-residents or others in 

 looking up suitable locations in the state as a soil survey. It 

 therefore, proposes the following resolutions for your con- 

 sideration and recommends its adoption : 



Whereas, an impression has prevailed in the countrv at 

 large that tlie soils of Connecticut are not generallv suited to 

 profitable agriculture, and 



