44 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Charles D.Woods, Director, Maine Agricultural Experiment 

 Station. This is, without doubt, a question which comes 

 home to the people of all the eastern States, to the people of 

 Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire 

 and Vermont, as well as Maine, but Maine has land especially 

 adapted to the production of potatoes, and the culture of 

 the crop has been carried on there more extensively than in 

 any other part of the eastern States, and I do not know but 

 the whole country, and more successfully. The potato 

 raisers of Maine recognize the assistance which has been 

 given them by the Experiment Station of Maine, the bounty 

 of the United States government having furnished the means 

 for many large and exhaustive experiments which are of 

 benefit to the cultivator of the potato in the State of Maine. 

 The Board of Agriculture, its secretary, and its committee, 

 have been to Maine to ascertain who the man is that can tell 

 us most about the successful modern culture of the potato, 

 and the man is Dr. Charles D. Woods, and I now introduce 

 him. 



