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enable the Commissioner of Agriculture to place more inspect- 

 ors in the field during the shipping season and through them 

 carry on a campaign of education regarding the proper grading 

 and branding of apples. 



The splendid achievements won by this Society in the past 

 should spur us on to even greater efforts in the future in 

 carrying on our educational campaign for better fruit, better 

 grading and branding, more cooperative organizations among 

 our growers, more warehouses or central packing houses, that a 

 more uniform pack be secured, and better shipping facilities. 



To accomplish this our Society needs the hearty cooperation 

 of every live fruit grower in Maine, and I believe a strenuous 

 eifort should be made along this line, until every interested 

 fruit grower is enrolled as a member of the Pomological Society, 

 and the fruit industry of Maine is placed on a solid business 

 basis. 



ORCHARD EXPERIMENTAL WORK IN NOVA 

 SCOTIA, 



CONDUCTED BY THE DOMINION EXPERIMENTAL FARMS. 



Prof. W. Saxby Blair, Kentville, N. S. 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: 



The experimental farms with which I am associated are 

 under the control of the Dominion Government. A number 

 are located at dififerent parts of the Dominion. In Nova Scotia 

 we have two. The one I am associated with is devoted pretty 

 largely to the fruit experimental work. We are located in the 

 principal fruit growing section of Nova Scotia, hence we natu- 

 rally are supposed to do all we can to assist the fruit growers 

 of that particular section. We have large fruit interests there, 

 and our first thought in taking up the work from an experimental 

 standpoint was to find out, if possible, how to assist the grow- 

 ers to grow a better quality of fruit and to get more money out 

 of it than they are getting at the present time. We find, even 

 in these sections, where tree fruit growers are well organized, 

 where they have the best facilities for getting their products on 

 the market and getting the biggest prices for these products, 



