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Q. Do you have anyone for grafting? 

 Prof. Norman : We do not have anyone we can recom- 

 mend to go out and do grafting. 



The principal address of the forenoon session was given 

 by Prof. Fred C. Sears of the Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College, as follows : 



OBSERVATIONS ON THE APPLE INDUSTRY OF THE 



PACIFIC COAST 



PROF. FRED C. SEARS 



Mass. Agricultural College, Amherst. 



I want to begin my talk this morning by giving you 

 some of the general impressions which my western trip has 

 left with me, and I want to close it with as accurate a com- 

 parison as I can make of the relative advantages and dis- 

 advantages of New England and the Pacific Northwest as or- 

 chard sections, and some of the lessons which it seems to me 

 we can learn from them. 



As you probably all know, I have done more or less 

 talking during the past three years on the subject of apple 

 growing in New England. I have told people there was 

 money to be made out of it, if properly conducted, and have 

 shown my faith in the business by going into it myself. And 

 I have insisted that New England had very distinct ad- 

 vantages over the West. I still think so. But I want to tell 

 you confidentially that for the first week of my stay in the 

 Northwest I was staggered, and began to consider whether 

 the Bay Road Fruit Farm (the farm Professor Waugh and 

 I have at Amherst) could be worked over into a poultry 

 farm or a game preserve. For I never saw before and may 

 never see again such beautiful fruit ! I had expected to see 

 fine Newtons and Spitzenburgs, but to see Baldwins and 

 Rhode Island Greenings absolutely the most beautiful things 

 in the apple line was rather disconcerting, for I thought 

 they were New England specialties. I said to myself, "My 

 boy, you had better go home and apologize to the orchard 

 men of New England for attempting to lead them astray." 

 This impression of their beautiful fruit stayed with me dur- 

 ing my entire trip, and will always stay with me. Their 

 best fruit is a glorious sight and a thing to be proud of, and 



