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the tree, and at a later period for the development of fruit 

 of the highest degree of quality and color. Our own or- 

 chards occupy lands that were but a comparatively few 

 years ago forest tracts, and much of the success of our- 

 efforts in orcharding is directly traceable to the choice of 

 such sites for orchard purposes. 



"If much of the land that is being denuded of its 

 forest growth by our industrious lumbermen could be trans- 

 formed into profitable orchards we would more readily 

 pardon the ruthless abandon with which he performs his 

 work, and far greater wealth would be added to valuation- 

 in localities suffering such a change. As altitude and per- 

 fect drainage play an important part in perfecting the- 

 apple, it can readily be seen how desirable our hilltops and> 

 sunny slopes are for the cultivation of the apple. 



"Our climate, together with the proper feeding of the 

 tree, produces a fruit of unexcelled quality. The other day 

 I bought a large, well colored Colorado apple, but two bites 

 of it was enough. I afterwards made a hearty lunch upon 

 some of our native apples. With such varieties as the- 

 Baldwin, Greening, Russet, Northern Spy, Mackintosh, 

 Gravenstein, Porter, Astrachau, Avhen well grown, we can- 

 well hold the supremacy as to quality over any other sec- 

 tion of our country, and these are the varieties, as a whole, 

 which are recognized abroad as of the greatest excellence."' 



Mr. Harold L. Frost of Arlington then lectured on 



THE BEST OUTFIT FOR SPRAYING FRUIT TREES: 



' ' In the early days of fruit growing, the farmer with his 

 virgin soil, isolated position and hardy stock, had only to 

 dig a hole in the ground and plant his tree. No necessity 

 for spraying apparatus. If there was a crop of fruit, which 

 usually occurred every other year, he harvested the same; 

 marketed it, and considered that all the returns were profit, 

 as it had caused him no expense. 



"As he commenced to import new varieties, as he was 

 brought into closer touch with other sections of the coun- 

 try, and Qven with foreign countries, he noticed that his 

 trees were not as hardy, although he was producing much 

 better fruit. In many cases, he not only lost some of his 

 fruit, but he also lost the tree itself. This he was unable to 

 prevent, and had to change his crop perhaps after enormous- 

 expense, as in the eastern part of the state pear trees which^ 



