FARM RENOVATION. IO3 



, \Yhat, then, was there left for a lad who had ambition to do 

 something and see something that others were doing and seeing 

 in the world? Not very much, I think you will all admit. 

 Even the Farmers' Institutes, that have done so much to encour- 

 age and stimulate the farmer boys and their parents of late years, 

 had not been thought of, and as for a course in the University 

 of Maine which is so highly prized nowadays by many of the 

 young men who are to adopt dairying and other branches of 

 agriculture as their life work, it was a long way from realization 

 in our State. As a lad on the farm, if I could have had the 

 encouragement and help that the boys of this town and this 

 community are enjoying today, I have no doubt but that there 

 would have been one less poor editor and one more tolerably 

 successful tiller of the soil. 



