STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. IO9 



Hunt says, more time for just the mere joy of living. And 

 Miss Arnold put it very emphatically at the national meeting 

 of home economics this year when she said : "We talk about 

 efficiency all the time. We need efficiency, but it is time that we 

 talked less of efficiency and more of the real thing, human life." 

 And that is certainly true, but we are only going to get that 

 through the learning of these fundamental, physical things. I 

 think Emerson sums up the whole thing when he says that "A 

 house should bear witness in all its economy that human culture 

 is the end to which it is built and garnished." 



CONCLUSIONS FROM THE FIRST GREGORY 

 CONTEST. 



Hon. a. K. Gardner, State Horticulturist. 



(Stenographic Copy.) 



Most of you are more or less acquainted with the first con- 

 test in the Gregory prize, perhaps better known as the Carleton 

 prize. You know in 1909, Maine, through the work of Mr. 

 Hitchings and Mr. Yeaton, made an exceptional showing at the 

 New England Fruit Show in apples and because of that showing 

 and because of the business relations that he had had with the 

 State of Maine, the late Mr. Gregory of Marblehead offered a 

 $1000 bond to the State of Maine. The interest on this bond 

 every five years was to be given to the farmer producing the 

 best orchard five years from setting. So that the first orchard 

 was planted in 1910 and judged in 1914. This bond was a five 

 per cent bond, so that the interest would be $250. Only $200 

 of this money was to be used as a prize, the remainder going 

 to pay part of the expenses of the people who judged. 



In addition to the $200 premium offered by Mr. Gregory 

 there were other premiums offered by various concerns doing 

 business in the state and a premium by a friend, so that the total 

 aggregated about $800. 



There were about 178 men scattered through the various 

 counties of the state that entered this contest, and while some 

 of them have dropped out, there are over 100 that have corn- 



