86 AGRICULTURE OF MAINE. 



TItcv ought to be told things a little plainer, and some of our 

 men ought to be told too. If the brown-tails are as thick all 

 over the State as they are in Oxford County, 1 pity }ou Augusta 

 people who have got to clean these trees this winter, for if they 

 are not cleaned how are you to live next sinnmer. 



I think I have shown you all you can see here in the evening. 

 If we can only awaken a little interest among the children — and 

 grown people too — if we can only get an object that will give 

 us something to think about we won't grow so narrow-minded. 

 Men and women ought to find some kind of interest beyond 

 their work, something that will be a rest to them outside their 

 work. I expect people think I am a crank and pity my poor 

 husband because I carry it so far, but somebody has got to 

 interest the others. And when you do get interested in nature 

 it opens such a broad field. If our boys and girls can get inter- 

 ested in these things and get some faint idea of the wonderful 

 possibilities of earning a living out of the soil and of raising 

 such fruit as this we won't have to ask how to keep them on 

 the farm. 



