^2 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



for while I am doing some little things in orcharding myself, 

 I am conducting my operations about 2,000 miles away from 

 the college. (Laughter). 



(Prof. Sears: I am not so much afraid of my methods 

 as 3'ou are,) 



(Prof. Craig: .That is not only a case of mistaken 

 judgment, but it is aggravated by inability to see the error of 

 his ways.) 



I think it is a mighty good thing for professors to take 

 up orchard problems and try to work them out once in a while. 

 It gives them a first-hand knowledge of the practical man's 

 difficulties, and it also gives them a first-hand knowledge of 

 what things cost, which is a pretty good sort of thing. When 

 we have to provide the money for the preparing of the land 

 and the laying out of the orchard, the planting of the trees 

 and that sort of thing, we are compelled to speak a little more 

 thoughtfully on such subjects. When a man "falls down" in 

 his every-day task we have a little more feeling for him. 



Like my personal fruit farming, — my subject is just about 

 as far away, so I am altogether on safe ground, unless I run 

 up against some man from Oregon or Washington. I have 

 been asked to tell you something about fruit growing and 

 fruit handling in the Pacific Northwest. 



In the progress of all industries in recent times we know 

 that distance and time have been practically annihilated ; we 

 know that the fruits of the Pacific coast are alongside ours 

 so far as competition is concerned, and that the man who 

 grows fine apples in Washington and Oregon is our com- 

 petitor at home and abroad. So it is up to us, if these men 

 are making great successes, to see how they are attaining these 

 successes and, if possible, to get ahead of them. 



I think it was twenty years ago last fall that I made my 

 first visit to Washington and Oregon, and spent some months 

 in prospecting over these sage brush stretches in upland and 

 inland valleys. The last time I was there was less than two 

 months ago, at the time of the great apple show at Spokane. 

 This was the greatest event in the history of pomology in this 



