38 state; pomological society. 



grow. Why in the last Lewiston Journal — I think the reporter 

 is here today — they got out an article which I suppose he thinks 

 is worth $1,000 to the people of Maine. Now you can take that 

 little yeast cake and vaccinate an acre of grain and make it 

 grandly productive. I don't know as Bro. Bateman wrote that 

 but it sounded a little like him. I think it is worth looking into. 

 The government don't do things by halves, and the government 

 you know is liberal, and they have offered to donate these 

 little yeast cakes — I am going to call them — for the farmers to 

 experiment with, and I told Mrs. DeCoster that I was going to 

 have one. I am going to sit in the house, and imagine how 

 my trees and things will grow ! 



HOW TREES DRESSED WITH "FISHER FERTI- 

 • LIZER" LAST YEAR BEHAVED THIS YEAR. 



S. H. Dawes, Harrison. 



The question of orchard fertility and the best methods to 

 obtain it, is one of the most important that confronts our fruit 

 growers today. There are several ways that are practiced such 

 as pasturing with sheep and hogs, topdressing, mulching, cover 

 crops, cultivation by ploughing and harrowing, with the use of 

 barnyard dressing, phosphates, etc. All have more or less merit, 

 according to the way they are applied and the manner in which 

 the work is done. A successful fruit grower must be a man of 

 good judgment, who loves the business and takes into account 

 the conditions, his surroundings and means, in order to obtain 

 the best results. I have no doubt but that three-fourths of the 

 orchards in our State are standing in grass fields and pastures, 

 many of which it is impossible to cultivate by ploughing, in con- 

 sequence of the rocky condition of the soil, or where the trees 

 stand too close together. 



The pasturing of sheep and hogs is to be recommended. It 

 has one important advantage over all others. The hogs con- 

 sume all the wormy fruit, which is death to insects, and the try- 

 peta can find no lodgment where they are' kept. 



