122 state; pomological society. 



years ago we went, two men and myself, with a team one day 

 and spent three-quarters of a day in bringing thirteen rock 

 maple trees. We planted them about the house I live in. They 

 have grown up into those magnificent sugar maples you saw 

 today in front of the house, — twelve of them — one was lost. I 

 think if any man in the country had money to buy that place for 

 a home, paying three or four thousand dollars for it — it would 

 probably sell for that if it was in the market — I don't believe 

 there is a man in the country that is able to pay three or four 

 thousand dollars for a home that would allow those twelve trees 

 to be cut down for a thousand dollars, and yet we have not put 

 an hour's time on the care of those trees since they were planted. 

 Can you tell me of any line of work, agricultural or pomological, 

 that has paid as did the planting of those twelve trees ? Because 

 there are thousands of men who are able to buy homes who 



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would readily pay a thousand dollars for them ; and they have a 

 thousand dollars value today. There is something in this mat- 

 ter aside from merely gratifying the taste for beauty. It is a 

 taste for comfort. Who would have those trees cut down such 

 weather as this. It is something beyond beauty ; it is comfort. 



Question : "What can be done to encourage the farmers to 

 raise more small fruit for home consumption?" 



Question : How to prevent the railroad worm, from ravag- 

 ing one's apples? 



Prof. Gowell: What is the matter with the old hen? 



Prof. MuNsoN : The question of the railroad worm has been 

 pretty thoroughly threshed out, but the one way we can combat 

 it is to destroy the fruit in which it exists. That is one reason 

 why the old hen suggested by Prof. Gowell is a very good 

 preventive, destroying the fallen fruit. The use of hogs and 

 sheep in the orchard for the same purpose is a very good prac- 



