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results of the labors of this pioneer association getting down 

 now to a point where the people of the State mu-t begin to rec- 

 ognize the value of such kind of work. I hope that the Legis- 

 lature will extend very generous aid to the Association in the 

 work that it is trying to do. It would be idle on my part to 

 refer particularly to the exhibits here because I don't profess 

 to be much of an expert in fruit myself. I have been watching 

 very interestedly the little experiments that we have been 

 trying to make throughout the province of New Brunswick in 

 regard to the adaptability of varieties to different sections. I 

 was glad to notice the many good points that your President 

 mentioned in his annual address, and 1 was particularly im- 

 pressed with the point that we must study and find out just how 

 the soils, climatic conditions and other iniiuences affect different 

 varieties so that we may make the best of our local opportuni- 

 ties. That is a matter that is well worth}^ of investigation. We 

 have just started on that in New Brunswick. We have some 

 twenty-seven different stations planted out under the depart- 

 ment over which I have the honor to be the deputy head, and 

 our horticulturist has every tree numbered with a view to keep- 

 ing a sort of diary of the doings of that tree from the time it 

 is planted until it comes into bearing. We are asking the men 

 who have these orchards on their farms to carefully keep the 

 records and we hope that in the next ten or fifteen years we 

 shall have a lot of valuable information from the apples in at 

 least twenty-seven or twenty-eight different localities through- 

 out the province, to be a guide as to what localities are likely to 

 give the least danger of failure. And w^e also illustrate on these 

 sample orchards the system of cultivation and care and fertili- 

 zation that we believe to be the best for the diff'erent sections 

 in which they are planted, so as to give an object lesson of what 

 sort of success a man may hope to have in an orchard in that 

 particular location by following out the lines of work and se- 

 lecting the varieties that are doing best in these orchards. We 

 also follow up as far as we can educational work in spraying. 

 The past year we took three different orchards, old neglected 

 orchards to some extent, in different parts of the province, and 

 had our horticulturist demonstrate tliere proper pruning and 

 spraying and fertilizing and harvesting and marketing of the 

 crops. And of course this year was a very favorable year for 



