no STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Spraying is insurance, and it is an insurance, gentlemen, which 

 we must learn to avail ourselves of. And in that work the 

 Experiment Station is prepared to lend a hand. We are at 

 the present time carrying on experiments in Kennebec County 

 covering some three hundred trees, which will be reported in 

 due time. I may say briefly, another line of experimentation is 

 being carried on in New Gloucester. 



The purpose of the Experiment Station then, at the present 

 time, is not to do the work here at Orono, because we cannot. 

 It is to do it in Kennebec, in Androscoggin, in Cumberland, in 

 York, in Sagadahoc, or in Somerset, — to do a certain amount of 

 demonstration work, if you please. Some may say not a very 

 high type of experimenting station work. The highest type of 

 experiment station work, or any other work, is that which shall 

 do the most good for the people; it is that which shall bring 

 right home to our own doors, knowledge — not necessarily some 

 new idea, although that is a very important factor of experiment 

 station work — knowledge which shall help the people of the 

 State of Maine, the people of the United States if you please, to 

 do things better. It is not only the man who does the most 

 uncommon things, but it is the man who does common things 

 uncommonly well, that is helpful to his race. Now, gentlemen, 

 the Experiment Station hopes to do both of these lines of work, 

 not simply in pomology, not simply in entomology, not simply 

 in chemistry, but by taking up certain lines of all these factors, 

 the Experiment Station as a whole is aiming to do that which 

 may assist in the development of the horticultural interests of 

 the State, of the agricultural interests of the State, and of every- 

 thing which goes to the building up of rural life. And, I may 

 add, although I was to speak simply for the Station. I may 

 add that the College of Agriculture, the University, is working 

 hand in hand with the Station and is doing everything in its 

 power to supplement, to extend, to take to the people the results 

 of experiments conducted not only here but in other parts of the 

 world, and the two are aiming to do that which may best result 

 in the upbuilding of the horticultural and agricultural interests 

 of the State. 



Secretary D. H. Knowlton : There are certain things today 

 of which I am very glad, and so far as I say anything to you it 

 will be with reference somewhat to that idea. In the first place, 



