Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-12
Preparing Bulletin of Gregory Or
ehard Contest ASST

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State Horticulturist A X. Gardner
and his assistant, II. P. Sweetser are
at work preparing a bulletin covering
the results of the Gregory Orchard
Contest which has just closed and
giving the regulations for the second
contest, The material for this bulletin
will be put in the hands of the printer
next week. Application blanks for
the next contest are also being pre-
pared and win soon be ready for dis
tritution.
The resolve covering the contest
will be- read with interest by all who
contemplate entering the next. contest.
1t is Chapter 60 of the Resolves of 1911
and ii reads as follows
Whereas, on November one, nine
teen hundred and nine, James j. A.
Gregory late of Marblehead, Mass,
gave to the State of Maine an inter-
est bearing, first mortgage bond for
one thousand dollars to perpetuate the
memory of his college friend, Marcus
Manard Carleton. the interest whereof
to be used for the promotion of scien-
itific. orcharding in Maine. according
to the conditions accompanying the
gift:
Resolved, that the treasurer ofrthe
State of Maine and his successors in
offlce be and he hereby is constituted
sole trustee to receive and hold said
gift. >re-investing same at maturity
forever and collecting and depositing
in some approved savings bank in
Maine the interest on said gift until
the year nineteen hundred and four
teen, in which year, and on every fifth
year thereaftRrward, said treasurer
shall pay as directed by the governor
and council from the interest at that
time accrued the sum of two hundred
dollars as a premium to the farmer,
in Maine, who shall be named by the
committee hereinafter provided. as a
premium for the most thrifty and well
kept orchard of one acre or more of
apple trees five years from planting.
on his own land. and shall pay TO said
interest their necessary disbursements
for travel in inspecting such orchards
and awarding said prize.
'And be ii further resolved that a
committee consisting of three men,
versed in the science and art of or
charding, shall in July nineteen hun
dred and fourteen be appointed as fol-
lows, two members to be appointed by
the governor and one who shall be
the chairman to be appointed by the
commissioner of agriculture. who shall
serve without pay, in inspecting the
competing orchards and awarding the
premium. At the expiration of five
years from nineteen hundred and four
teen, and ut five-year intervals there
after like committee shall be APP
pointed to serve as above. Said COM
mittee shall visit the orchards entered
in the contest for the Carleton prize
and report in the month of October
to the governor and name the winner
of said prize and other prizes that may
be awarded in this contest, and shall
be allowed by the governor and coun-
Gil their necessary disbursements as
above. provided that, in no year of
award shall greater sum be allowed
for disbursements, from this source,
than the interest accrued on said gift
over and above the sum of two humid
red dollars.
And be it further resolved That
before the month of January next fol-
lowing the season upon which the
award is made, the department of ag-
ricuiture shall mail to the postmaster
Of each town in the State, to be post
ed in the post Office a circular giving
the conditions of the award, which,
In addition to those already prescrib-