STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETT. iS- 



destroyed a. great many of the trees, so that this move profited us 

 nothing, and the orchard has grown less from year to year till now 

 but a vestige of it remains. 



But the h ssons of those days remain and to those who have 

 seedling trees tOQ old for grafting, I would say, care for the fruit, 

 feed it judiciously, and you will find a profit by so doing. 



Let us consider for a few moments the apple from a scientific 

 standpo nt, not that I lay any claim t) being a man of science, but 

 there are those who are, and they are a class of people whom I 

 have a very kindly feeling for. These experiment station men, 

 what a world of work they are doing for the farmers ! What days 

 of doubt and trials they are saving us ! We are no longer obliged 

 to grope in uncertainty and doubt as in years tliat are passed. 

 Not only do they work out these problems for us but they lay upon 

 our tables the results so that he who runs may read and profit 

 thereby. These men tell us that a large amount of the apple is 

 water, but by comparison, we find it contains no more than many 

 other foods From the third report of the statiou at Amherst, 

 Massachusetts, we find that R. I Greenings have 84.65 per cent 

 of moisture ; sweet apples, 75.17 per cent. Third Ohio report, 

 potatoes, 78.65 per cent; fi^'th Amherst station report, carrots, 

 90.02 per cent; skim milk, 91 per cent; corn ensilage, 71.60 per 

 cent. From the Vermont report of 1888, that Harris Globe Man- 

 golds, 94.34 per cent ; Brewer's Grains, 78 34 per cent Yet in com- 

 parison with other foods we learn that a ton of apples are valued 

 at only sixty cents per ton, with wheat bran such as fed at the 

 Amherst station, $15.42. 



This brings us to the point of consideration. The careful pains- 

 taking farmer well knows that a ration in which is included apples, 

 beets, carrots or turnips, will put on a finish of flesh to beeves or 

 mutton and to the dairy cow a certain heartiness and grand powers 

 of assimilation so much desired. So to that farmer who has seed- 

 ling apples, I would say from experience feed them, feed them each 

 day at just such a time in the day and you will prove to yourselves 

 that they are worth many times six'y cents per ton. 



To farmers who winter shotes good use can be made of apples 

 and milk, especially can frozen apples thawed in water to which is 

 added some bran or flour be recommended for breeding swine. 



Vermont Station in 1888 reports on apple pomace and to those 

 owning mills or living near that the pomace can be obtained 



