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put Maine where she ought to be as a farming community, and 

 show the western farmers that what we lack in capital and what 

 we lack possibly in enterprise, we can make up by dint of forci- 

 ble work and scientific application. And these are the men here 

 who can do that, who are competent to do it. and while they 

 have got no inspiration from Prseident Flagg and myself as to 

 methods, still they will go away with the feeling that this hour 

 has not been wasted and that they are better fitted for their 

 work through having had this opportunity. 



J. C. Connors. 



Like the last speaker, I shall have to plead ignorance of dairv 

 methods of farming, because I was born and raised in the city 

 and the only farm we ever saw was on a picnic. When the 

 picnic organization of the ward would take all the boys ii-i the 

 ward out in the country once in a while, we would see a cow. 



While eating this banquet to-night I was reminded of 1 •..t 

 Thanksgiving. I happened to be in New York City with the 

 Commissioner of Weights and Measures and we were in some of 

 the markets where they were selling turkeys. We looked in 

 the boxes where they trimmed the turkeys, in two or three of 

 the stores, and knowing a little about it we looked at the heads 

 of the turkeys. They have a practice there of taking a piece of 

 lead weighing 3-4 of a pound and sticking it down the nerk of 

 the turkey ; when they put the turkey on the scales of course 

 that lead will be there, but when the turkey is dressed the neck 

 is cut ofl:" just below the lead. The customer really paid for 

 about 3-4 of a pound of lead. That is only one of the ways 

 that they have in the City of New York for cheating the con- 

 sumer. They have some methods there, on account of compe- 

 tition being so keen, that T hardly think are practiced in some 

 of the other cities. I worked in New York City with the 

 Weights and Measures force a good part of last year. Up to 

 19 10 there wasn't very much done in that city in regard to 

 regulating the weights and measures, so that when Mayor 

 Gaynor instructed the force to get out and clean up the city 

 they found some interesting things. The force consisted of 20 



