50 state; pomological society. 



failure." "Wlhy," I said, "most emphatically, no." Because 

 we find a negative result, we don't consider an experiment a fail- 

 ure. It is just as important to find out what is not true as it is 

 to find out what is true. So don't get the idea because we have 

 some notion, and when we come to study the evidences our 

 notions are not of any value, don't consider that the experiment 

 is not of any value because it may be of the greatest value. 



But further, I am comparing in these plots these different 

 forms of potash. These plots have now been under observation 

 for six years, and they will continue six years, or sixteen years 

 longer if necessary, that we may determine if there is any actual 

 advantage of one form of potash over another. Now that we 

 have abandoned the study of potash with reference to the apple 

 scab, these orchards will be treated in a rational manner; but 

 the different kinds of potash will be continued. 



Mr. President, with the feast of good things which is yet to 

 come, I had better not occupy any more time on this occasion. 

 Just here, however, I would impress upon the minds of this audi- 

 ence the educational value which is to be derived from a per- 

 sonal inspection of the actual work that is being done in any 

 well managed orchard. Mr. Dawes is doing a capital work in 

 his part of the State, in showing what may be done along cer- 

 tain lines of orchard work. Mr. Pope is doing an equally 

 important work in his, and Mr. DeCoster is developing orchard- 

 ing in his section. Mr. True over at New Gloucester is empha- 

 sizing the importance of careful work in orcharding there ; our 

 worthy President likewise in the town of Greene. And so, all 

 over the State, we are establishing little Centers from which our 

 neighbors are to learn the importance and the value of fruit 

 growing in the State of Maine. 



