STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 8l 



You hear much about the West, and many people tell you to 

 go west if you want to get rich, and want to make a big man 

 out of yourself quick. But lots of people in the West are tell- 

 ing their children to "go east, that is where you will have the 

 best chance." And you do have just as good a chance here in 

 the East as can be had anywhere in the United States. 



Do you know who the biggest man in Iowa is at the present 

 time ? There are a few men there who raise five thousand acres 

 of corn each year. Those are the big men of the State of Iowa. 

 Do you know who the big men of Oregon are? They are men 

 who have orchards worth two thousand dollars an acre, and 

 not the men in the legislature. I call your attention to a few 

 of these things so you can see there is an opening for you right 

 here at home, on your own hillsides, and in your own valleys. I 

 am putting up a plea for you to stick closer to the soil, and solve 

 its problems. I tell you there is a great satisfaction in being 

 able to take hold of nature's sunshine, nature's rain and nature's 

 soil and make products out of them which are really worth 

 while. And I want to call the attention of you students to the 

 possibilities of farming, and especially fruit growing, right here 

 in the State of Maine, in Oxford County. 



PROGRESS IN THE STUDY OF APPLE DISEASES AT 

 THE MAINE EXPERIMENT STATION. 



By Charles E. Lewis. 



During the past two years, the Department of Plant Path- 

 ology of the Maine Experiment Station has devoted consider- 

 able time and study to the diseases of the apple, making this 

 one of the chief lines of investigation. At the meeting of the 

 Pomological Society last year. Professor Morse gave a paper in 

 which he outlined the work which we were doing and told you 

 something of our plans for this year. The work has been con- 

 tinued and we feel that we have obtained results which cannot 

 help being of value to the apple growers of the State. 



In taking up this work, one of the first things which we have 



had to do was to become acquainted with the orchard conditions 



and with the diseases present in the State. In traveling through 



Maine, it becomes evident even to a casual observer that there 



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