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nature had tried to do her best to counteract the effects of that 

 caterpillar, the trees leaving out and blossoming again in the 

 fall. 



The last slide shows the grand sweepstake barrel to which I 

 have referred. You can see the blue ribbon on the barrel. It 

 gives you an idea of the first-class condition of the fruit in every 

 way. 



REMARKS BY DR. GEORGE EMORY FELLOWS, 



President of the University of Maine, 

 At the Annual Banquet. 



Ladies and Gentlemen: 



I have been devoting something over thirty years to the 

 preparation of what I may say here tonight, and I can hardly 

 condense it into five minutes. I want, however, to call atten- 

 tion to the possibilities of development in such an association 

 as this. 



I was visiting at the University of Wisconsin last year, and I 

 learned there that the farmers in Wisconsin who were growing 

 corn had formed themselves into a corn growing association, 

 an experiment association they called it, very much like these 

 dairy cow testing associations that are being formed throughout 

 the East, and about which you know something. The result 

 has been, from the co-operation of farmers who are interested 

 in growing corn in that state, that corn which would not mature 

 above the forty-second parallel or thereabouts, has now been 

 made to grow as far north as Lake Superior, — Dent corn, solid 

 and mature, such as is grown in central Illinois. This is prac- 

 tical. That means hundreds of thousands of dollars in the 

 pockets of the farmers who belong to that association. The 

 same kind of work may be done by the members of this asso- 

 ciation, if you organize in such a way. Without doing any- 

 thing new, each person becomes aware of the work of every 

 other person who has been successful. Just a word on that, to 

 throw out as a hint. 



It takes fifteen or twenty years, I understand, to bring an 

 apple tree to such maturity that it is profitable. Is an apple 



