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done. It is thorough work that these people put into fruit 

 raising. Our climate is more suitable than theirs, and there 

 is no reason why we cannot get as good results, if we put 

 into it the same amount of work. The trouble is that we 

 have too many irons in the fire. 



Dr. Henry Fernald was then introduced and gave a 

 splendid stereopticon lecture, the summary of which is 

 printed as follows : 



INSECT PESTS AND THEIR CONTROL 



DR. H. T. FERNALD, Entomologist, M. A. C. 

 Stereopticon Lecture 



I do not come before you at this time to go into the ques- 

 tion of the advisability of fruit growing in Massachusetts 

 or of fruit growing at all. If you did not believe in it y.)u 

 would not be here today. I do wish to emphasize, however, 

 one point that the last speaker made, and that is that suc- 

 cessful fruit growing cannot be carried on as a side issue. It 

 has been carried on as a side issue since 1650 in Massachu- 

 setts, and the result is cider apples and poor fruit. Undo" 

 our New England conditions apple raising can be carried on 

 successfully only by attending strictly to that and noth'n.i? 

 else. I am not afraid of the West, nor am I afraid of over- 

 production, for in spite of all the orchards that are being set 

 out, many of them will be neglected, so for this reason, I do 

 not fear over-production, but what I do fear is that we can- 

 not raise enough tirst-elass fruit to supply the market. The 

 man who is going to make good profits for the next twenty 

 years on apples is the man who is going to eat apples for 

 breakfast, think apples until dinner time, eat apples for "H in- 

 ner, think about apples in the afternoon and for supper- - 

 well, I will let him read the newspaper then — but that man 

 must be an enthusiast, first, last and all the time. 



I do not for a moment minimize the seriousness of the 

 fact that there are over four hundred insects which m.-iy at- 

 tack the apple alone, still most of these pests are of little iai- 

 portance and only once in a while will one of these less im- 

 portant forms come to the front. Unfortunately there are 

 some that are always with us and always doing daaiage, 

 and a few of these I wish to speak of this afternoon, i do- 



