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by the experiment stations in studying life histories and devising- 

 means of extermination. Among those mentioned were the 

 apple curculio, the apple maggot, bud moth, tent caterpillar, 

 borers, apple and pear blight, apple scab, apple rust and bitter 

 rot and others.] 



In the above I 1 ave attempted to outline some of the work 

 which is being done by experiment stations in our country 

 for the growers of the apple. If anything like a full list of 

 the lines of work which are being taken up and the results 

 which have thus far been obtained in apple culture were to- 

 be presented, I should have wearied your patience more than I 

 already have. While in view of what there is to be learned, 

 it would seem as though very little had been accomplished by 

 the experiment stations, yet when one attempts to get together 

 for a paper like this even a catalogue of what has been done 

 along this one line, the amount is very great ; and when it is 

 remembered that important as is the apple, it represents only one 

 of many fruits, and as important as pomology is, it is only part 

 of the much larger subject of horticulture, the work thus far 

 done is very satisfactory. 



The work of the station goes on, ever increasing in amount 

 and value, from year to year. Most of the agricultural experi- 

 ment stations of the country were established in 1888. When 

 another decade shall have passed, it is not a rash prediction tc> 

 say that fourfold as much will have been accomplished as in 

 the past decade. 



