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Ques. Do you apply that same amount every year right 

 along ? 



Ans. No, I would apply that according to the needs of the 

 trees. For instance your trees are bearing heavily this year 

 I would put on a larger application after they have been bearing 

 heavily than if they haven't been bearing, because they have 

 been exhausting themselves. We little realize how exhausting 

 it is for a tree to bear five, ten, or more barrels of apples. It 

 has been figured out how much of fertilizing elements such a 

 crop takes out of the soil. I can't give the figures, but at least 

 we know that we have got to put something back in order to 

 maintain the health and vigor that we desire. 



SOME ESSENTIALS FOR SUCCESSFUL CO-OPERA- 

 TION AMONG MAINE FRUIT GROWERS. 



By William D. Hurd, Amherst, Mass. 



In accepting the invitation of the officers of this Association 

 to speak on the subject of Cooperation, I did so with a full 

 realization that this is no new subject in this State. I am fully 

 aware that this subject has been talked here until many consider 

 it worn threadbare ; that several prominent people have worked 

 unceasingly during recent years to establish cooperative enter- 

 prises ; that there are a few stores, or other small enterprises, 

 being successfully carried on ; and yet, so far as I know, noth- 

 ing has been developed which begins to reach the hopes and 

 expectations of the most earnest workers in this cause. 



Watching, as I have for more than six years, the efforts to es- 

 tablish cooperative enterprises in Maine, it has seemed to me 

 that the work was being attempted in many cases without due 

 regard to the first essentials necessary to the success of the 

 movement, so it is to some of these that I desire to call your 

 attention in this paper. 



Cooperation is desirable "because public welfare demands and 

 profits by it. In talking cooperation one must almost "preach 

 a sermon," for cooperation presupposes a condition of society 

 approaching the ideal. Cooperation is the banding together of 

 the stronsrer with the weaker for the mutual benefit of both. 



