156 MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 1908. 



The question has frequently been asked, — "Who will take 

 Professor Munson's place at the Experiment Station?" It does 

 not seem to be practicable at present to invite anyone to come 

 to the Station to take up this line of work as Professor Munson's 

 successor. The same reason that led to his resignation would 

 prevent the right kind of a man coming to the Maine Station 

 in pomological lines. Until orchards and suitable buildings for 

 the study of pomological problems are provided for the Station, 

 in the apple section of the State, it will be impossible to offer 

 facilities for work that would be attractive to a man who wants 

 not merely a salary, but opportunities for work and investiga- 

 tion. Obviously the kind of a man that would come for the 

 sake of the salary, is not the man wanted. The Station will 

 continue to study orchard insects and the fungous and other 

 diseases of the orchard as it has in the past, but the direct pomo- 

 logical questions, many of which are pressing and urgent, can- 

 not be taken up until such time as suitable facilities are available. 

 The Station has funds enough which can be used for the purpose 

 of these studies, but has no funds which can be used for the 

 purchase or rental of lands or orchards or buildings needed for 

 the successful carrying out of investigations fundamental to 

 orcharding. 



At the annual meeting (November, 1907) of the State Pomo- 

 logical Society, great interest was shown in the work which the 

 Station has been able to accomplish, and strong expressions on 

 the part of the officers and others prominent in the management 

 of the Society were made relative to the desirability of suitable 

 facilities being provided the Station for making these needed 

 studies. This matter of providing orchards and facilities in 

 the apple section of the State will come before the next legisla- 

 ture, and it is hoped that it may meet with favorable action. 

 Until then, the Station will continue to show its interest in the 

 orcharding of Maine by doing what it can along the lines of 

 entomological and pathological studies. It cannot hope to take 

 up the direct problems of pomology at once, nor can it, under 

 present conditions, hope to invite to this Station an earnest 

 student of pomology. 



