No. 4.] FRUIT GROWING. 179 



Mr. . We have them up at the Agricultural 



College. 



Dr. Twitchell. We have not got them yet at our 

 Agricultural College, — I wish we had. That is what I am 

 working for, — trying every way possible to get them there. 

 I like to talk to the boys and young men. As a rule, a 

 man forty-five years old has his mind pretty well made up, 

 and does not like to change. 



Fruit orowino; in the State 'of Maine is assuming large 

 proportions. In one town this year they set out twelve 

 thousand trees, and that is but the beginning. In that 

 same town they shipped last year I do not know how many 

 thousand barrels of apples, but it must have run up pretty 

 close to a hundred thousand. There is one piece of land 

 of twelve acres which I have been watching for years. 

 The man bought it for seven dollars an acre fifteen years 

 ago, and set apple trees upon it. It slopes down to a pond, 

 and he has taken good care of that orchard. He has taken 

 off of it in the fifteen years fruit enough to pay for the 

 land, the interest on the investment, and for the labor. 

 He sold it last year for three hundred and fifty dollars an 

 acre. Is not that as good an investment as an orange grove 

 in Florida ? 



In the town of Chesterfield a man who is, I think, the 

 most successful orchardist we have in the State of Maine, 

 bought, fifteen years ago, ninety acres, for which he paid five 

 dollars an acre. He told me last year that about thirty acres 

 of that was in bearing condition, and he said, " I have been 

 offered three hundred dollars an acre for the thirty acres, 

 and I would not sell it for five hundred dollars an acre." 

 Why, he realized from those thirty acres last year a net 

 profit of two thousand dollars on his apples. He got four 

 hundred and fifty dollars Out of the skins and cores, one of 

 his neighbors said, and then went to work and burned the 

 seeds and stems to save them. He simply put business into 

 everything he did, just as successful men who are engaged 

 in any other vocation are doing. 



Governor Hoard stated yesterday what may become an 

 actual fact before long, when he spoke of creamery butter 

 tailing below twenty cents a pound. I tell you you can pro- 



