52 The State and the Farmer 



ing for orchards on the relatively level lands 

 of the special fruit sections, but we have 

 given very little attention to the growing of 

 first quality apples in the more hilly regions. 

 In such regions we cannot practice the type 

 of clean tillage that we advise for other 

 lands. Some relatively simple and inexpen- 

 sive type of farm management must be 

 applied to them. There is every reason to 

 think that large areas in the East that are 

 now practically unknown to fruit may grow 

 a grade of apples that will be in great 

 demand in the foreign trade. The state can 

 well afford to undertake some large demon- 

 strations in the growing of such orchards. 



(2) A revival of the animal industries and 

 the extension of dairying. With the con- 

 tinued development of great city markets, 

 the dairy industry must grow. Many of the 

 hill and outlying lands are no doubt admir- 

 ably adapted to pasturage and forage crops 

 for cattle and sheep and swine ; but the live- 

 stock interest, aside from dairying and 

 poultry-raising, is altogether too small in 



