Excerpt from Agriculture of Maine: Second Annual Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture of the State of Maine, 1903 Wherever the soil is suited to this industry, and the farmer can give it his attention, it is certainly a good investment to convert these Maine hillside fields and pastures into orchards, planting the best varieties of standard winter fruit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.