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get from one place to another, aud perhaps chase deer aud iu a few spots 

 dig out granite. There is hardly any soil at all. There is a lot of waste 

 land that is peculiar to a large part of our State. Xow if we can onh' 

 manage to scatter these cranberries abroad in such places, we can utilize 

 this laud, aud we can have a great many more cranberries than we have 

 uow. That is one point. 



The other point is in the line of work which we, as fruit growers, have 

 reason to expect from our Experiment Station. It is established, of 

 course, to teach us so far as possible, the possibilities of the State, and 

 here is a line along which I hope they will work, hoping that in the 

 future we may get out of it perhaps a more profitablecrauberry even, than 

 they have on the Cape, by cultivation. At anj^ rate, if we can get some- 

 thing where we now get nothing we will be so much better oflf, materially, 

 spiritually aud every other wa}-. 



Prof. Harvky. The people all along the coast from Penobscot Bay 

 east, use these berries that the Secretary speaks of for home consump- 

 tion in preference to the others, and there is an abundance of them. We 

 liud them abundant in the markets in Bar Harbor in the fall season. 

 They grow even up on Katahdiu, and seem to thrive well on our Maine 

 sterile soil. 



SMALL FKUIT CULTUKE. 



By J. H. Hale, South Glastonbur}-, Conn. 



The subject that has been assigned me this evening is that of small 

 fruit culture, but before entering upon that, in a rambling wa}' I want to 

 say a word upon the general subject which is considered at these meet- 

 ings, and the work which is fostered by this Pomological Society-. Within 

 the past five or six years it has been mj' privilege to study the fruit 

 industry of this entire United States. Several of the special investiga- 

 tions of the last census were under my direct charge, aud in studj'ing the 

 problems that came before us I was impressed with the magnitude of 

 the fruit industry of this country, and with the growing consumption of 

 fruit throughout the country. In travelling through the Central and 

 Western states, in the far West, beyond the Rockies, and iu the South, I 

 found great orchards and vineyards being established, .50 or 100, or 200, 

 300 or .500 acres in extent, by business horticulturists who are seeking to 

 get liberal returns from their capital. Investigating further as to what 

 is going to be done with this fruit, — finding an orchard beyond the 

 Rockies, in Arizona, in New Mexico or Georgia, as the case might be, — 

 I found that the majority of those planters were looking to the 

 northeastern section for their money. If you ask them where 

 thejr are going to ship their fniit thej"^ will say north and east, 

 and tracing it down I found that the great majority of them 

 were looking to the extreme northeastern part of the country, I 



