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I thank you very much for the opportunity of saying these 

 few words to you. 



Dr. Twitciikll: It gives me pleasure at this time to pre- 

 sent an old friend and co-worker in the agricultural field, one 

 with whom I have traveled many miles and spent many days 

 during the past twenty-five years, one whose devotion to agri- 

 culture has not been excelled by any one in the Dominion of 

 Canada and who now is Secretary of the Department of Agri- 

 culture at Fredericton and has come over to see Maine fruit 

 and a little of what Maine is doing along these lines. It gives 

 me pleasure to present to you Hon. W. VV. Hubbard, of Fred- 

 ericton, N. B. 



Mr. Hurbard: Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: — I no- 

 tice that your program is full of good things and therefore it 

 would not be wisdom on my part to attempt to trespass on your 

 time. I can only say that it gives me a great deal of pleasure 

 to be able to accept the kind invitation of my good friend, your 

 President. We think a great deal of Dr. Twitchell over in the 

 province of New Brunswick where we have been favored with 

 his presence and his teaching ability in years past. I am very 

 glad indeed to be able to see what you are doing in apple grow- 

 ing. Your soil and climate here are very similar to what we 

 have in the province of New Brunswick, your nearest neighbor 

 to the east. One people as we are very largely, with common 

 aspirations and hopes, working out our salvation as best we 

 can in the development of our respective countries, I am sure 

 we can only gain by friendly intercourse, and therefore I am 

 very pleased indeed to meet so many good friends interested in 

 agricultural and fruit growing development as I have had the 

 pleasure of meeting here today. I must congratulate you very^ 

 very heartily indeed on the exhibit that you make here at this 

 time. We had a little fruit show in St. John the other day 

 that was perhaps larger in quantity but not any greater in 

 variety, and in fact not so great in variety, for we are not, 

 perhaps, growing the same number of varieties of apples suc- 

 cessfully as you are here. We haven't begun to develop our 

 fruit growing business in the province of New Brunswick to 

 the same extent that you have. Just last year we appointed a 

 horticulturist and began to take the subject up systematically. 

 But we feel that we have a great opportunity to develop a very 



