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Charles E. L\nian, \ny ^liddlesex County. 

 S. M. l'\ister, tor I'^airticld County. 

 C. .\. Ciray, for New London County. 



The President then introduced Mr. C. 1). |ar\is. o1" tlie 

 Storrs Experiment Station, who deH\ered llie lirst ad- 

 (h"ess of the afternoon, on "'idie Value of an Orchard 

 Sur\-e\-,'' illustratiui;- the sul)ject In- means of numerous charts. 



The Valuation of an Orchard Survey. 



T\\- C. 1). Jarvis, Storrs. 



Ahout three }-ears ago the Agricultural Experiment Station 

 of Cornell University undertook to make a sur\-ey or "census" 

 of certain fruit-growing sections of western New York state. 

 \\'ayne County, situated on the south shore of Lake Ontario, 

 was the first to receive attention. In 1904 Orleans County 

 and in 1905 Niagara County were similarly treated. In tlie 

 work of the latter county, in which l)oth ap])le and peach 

 orchards were studied, it was the writer's pri\ilege to share. 



Many agricultural problems may be investigated at tlie 

 experiment stations under the direct ob.servation of the in- 

 vestigator, but there are other broader problems w hich can not 

 be so investigated, (^ne of these far-reaching problems is the 

 determination of the status of the fruit-growing industr}- in a 

 certain section (^f tlie countr}'. We want to know if fruit 

 growing offers better opportunities in a given locality than 

 dairying, stock raising, or other special lines of agriculture; or 

 if certain combinations of these industries are more profitable. 

 The problem is not sohed b}' citing a success here and a failure 

 there. The only wa_\- is to get at the aggregate. Hut this is 

 onh- a beginning of the solution of the great problem. We 

 must determine the underl}'ing causes of successes and failures. 

 The purposes of an orchard sur\ey, then, nia\- be summed u]) 

 as follows : 



1. "To correlate geologic and soil characters with 



orchard conditions. 



2. "To compare successes and failures, and ascertain 



underlying causes. 

 3.' "To investigate methods of orchard management 

 and determine the infiuence of each. 



