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people that are seeking for a change, can direct those people who 

 are farming on land worth from $ioo to $200 per acre and 

 give them something that has value in it. I believe that your 

 conventions, your exhibits of butter and milk products, as well 

 as your fruit and your potatoes, will aid in this work ; that the 

 money can be well expended in that direction; but do not stop 

 there. Have the reports of those meetings, the results that have 

 been accomplished in the State of Maine, distributed so widely 

 and so generally that the people everywhere will be attracted 

 by what is said. When you advertise persistently enough you 

 are bound to attract those people and that is what I believe we 

 need in this State. — more practical farrners. 



I am not saying anything that will discourage the city farmers 

 in any -way. They are doing a good work and Maine is being 

 developed. I have watched the development of Maine with a 

 great deal of satisfaction. But I believe what we want now is 

 some of the progressive men, men who' will work their farms, 

 men who are practical farmers. If we can get them into the State 

 of Maine and get them interested in some of our propositions, 

 then the value of our lands wall increase, as I believe they ought 

 and those people will be better satisfied than to go to the far 

 West. Prof. Henry, Dean of the College of Agriculture of 

 Wisconsin for a great many years, made the statement that he 

 knew of no better place for a man to buy land for farming 

 purposes than in New England ; and he backed up his assertion 

 by coming to New England and buying a farm which he is 

 working very profitably. The State of Maine has been too 

 long conservative. We have seen some of our most progressive 

 young men, in generations past, go to the West. We have let 

 them go and the farmer has been satisfied with a good comfort- 

 able living. Now if we will just tell those people who have 

 gone what they have left, and show them their opportunities, 

 T believe they will be glad to come back to us, and I believe they 

 will be benefited and we will be benefited by their doing so. 



Prof F. Rasmussen. 



I am fully in accord with what Mr. Thompson has said, be- 

 cause if there is anything I believe in, it is the fact that we 



