134 AGRICULTURE OF MAINE. 



born in the State of Maine and lived here until five years ago, 

 and it is alw^ays a pleasure to get back to this State. I feel that 

 the State of Maine has some opportunities that even her own 

 citizens are overlooking. And in the few words that I shall say 

 tonight I would like to express my idea of the line of work that 

 I think ought to be taken up. i am satisfied that the time has 

 come when the State of Maine needs more advertising, and 

 broader advertising, than it has ever received. We may be 

 unfortunately located, up in the northeast corner of this coun- 

 try, and it is a fact, I am sure, that we are not always able to 

 make ourselves heard in that part of the country that we ought 

 to reach. I believe that the State of Maine has some opportuni- 

 ties, particularly in dairying, in fruit raising, and in potato rais- 

 ing, that are a credit to this or any other state in the Union. If 

 we will just advertise, and I am not going to leave it with the 

 word advertising — we have had already too much advertising 

 of some kinds. The fact is, if you get out in the Middle West 

 the people hardly know Alaine except as a fishing state. That 

 kind of advertising we have had too much of, and the kind we 

 want now is the boom kind. I believe we have opportunities 

 here that will compare favorably with those so broadly adver- 

 tised in the extreme \\'est. In the five years that I have been 

 out of the State I have visited almost every other state in the 

 Union and I have come to the conclusion that a little advertis- 

 ing, a little printers' ink used properly, will attract the attention 

 of people who are looking for something better than they are 

 getting today. The people of the Middle West, on those broad 

 prairie farms, are not altogether satisfied with their lot. They 

 are being attracted by the glaring headlines of advertisements 

 from the extreme West, perhaps Oregon or Washington, in 

 fruit culture. I had occasion less than a month ago to hear the 

 question of Oregon fruit discussed. I heard a man who was 

 thoroughly familiar with the subject say that in one section 

 widely advertised the trees were usually planted in holes blasted 

 out of ledges and they depended on the suckers from the East 

 to come out there and buy that land for $500 an acre. They are 

 all co-operating and working for one purpose and that is to 

 get people to go there. I believe the State of Maine, through 

 its Department of Agriculture, through its Dairymen's Associa- 

 tion, through its various commercial clubs, by working together, 

 by doing the kind of advertising that will reach the class of 



