160 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. '[Pub. Doc. 



Mr. Wood. Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen : The 

 subject selected for this afternoon's discussion is the broad 

 one of fruit growing ; so broad that to cover it even imper- 

 fectly would be impossible in the short time which can be 

 given to it at this meeting. We shall have to adopt the 

 method of the man spoken of yesterday, who ploughed the 

 field with his wife's steers and let them run wild because the 

 whole field needed ploughing. The subject may be very 

 properly divided into two distinct and difterent parts, fruit 

 growing for market, or orcharding and field growing, which 

 is one branch, and garden culture, another. But I felt that 

 for this meeting, a farmers' meeting, it might be more appro- 

 priate in the short time I am to occupy to make some sug- 

 gestions in the line of orchard and field growing mainly, and 

 to that ])ranch of the subject I will invite your attention for 

 a short time. 



