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I now have the honor of presenting Professor Blake 

 who will give us all there is to be known on peaches. 

 (Applause). 



PROFESSOR M. A. BLAKE. Gentlemen, Members of 

 the Massachusetts Fruit Growers' Association: It is with a 

 great deal of pleasure that I address you this morning. I 

 am reminded of a story, which some of you I know have 

 heard, A city man was asked to lecture in the country. He 

 had lived in the country when a boy, and he desired very 

 much to impress that fact upon his country audience, and 

 he went on to say that he had been born in the country and 

 could almost say that he grew up between two hills of corn. 

 At this point someone in the back of the room remarked 

 aloud, "Punkin, by Gosh!" (Laughter). 



The first fruit growers' meeting I ever attended was a 

 meeting of this Association in Worcester in the winter of 

 1903. At that time I was a senior in the Agricultural Col- 

 lege, and I guess Professor Waugh thought I would learn 

 more in a day at that meeting than I would in a day at the 

 college. 



EXPERIMENTS AND OBSERVATIONS WITH PEACHES 

 Prof. M. A. Blake, Horticulturist, New Brimswlck, N. J. 



The New Jersey State Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 began a thorough study of the peach growing industry in 

 New Jersey in 1905. The work was commenced by Dr. G. 

 F. "Warren in the form of a general peach survey of the state 

 to determine the methods of culture then in practise and to 

 determine just what problems confronted the growers. 



The survey was followed by the establishment of an ex- 

 periment and demonstration orchard of 1200 trees set at 

 High Bridge, N. J. in the spring of 1906. 



A second experiment and demonstration orchard of 675 

 trees was established at Vineland, N. J. in the spring of 1906 

 by the writer. This planting was increased by 534 trees in 

 1908 and by about 500 additional trees in 1912. 



The experiment station assumes the entire control of 



