10 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1877. 



cultivators successfully prevent or contend with these insects, and they 

 are rapidly increasing. We think that the fruit-grower in the future will 

 have to devise means and give time and labor to destroy these insects if 

 good fruit is to be grown, and the sooner we learn the most effectual 

 means for their destruction the better. 



The cultivation of the apple has long been an important interest in our 

 county, and holds a respectable rank among our agricultural industries. 

 The money value received for the last crop of 1876, apples exported from 

 the county, will probably exceed by far the value of any other product; 

 thousands of barrels having been, and are still being sent to other cities 

 and foreign ports; and although the price has been comparatively low, 

 still the sum total must amount to several hundred thousand dollars. 

 This has been accomplished by very ordinary, I might almost say by hap- 

 hazard cultivation; good cultivation, or the care that other crops have to 

 receive, would have undoubtedly doubled the money value of the apple crop 

 by largely reducing the per cent, of fruit that is unmerchantable, and un- 

 fit for use. All questions regarding the culture of crops of all kinds, 

 sooner or later resolve themselves into the one great problem. Profit, 

 which is the bottom round of the ladder of success. 



