STATE POMOI.OGICAL SOCIETY. II5 



It is simply a case of our utilizing the possibilities before us to 

 our mutual advantage. We have everything that is required. 

 As Casca said in his tirade against Csesar, 



" The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars 

 But in ourselves, that we are underlings." 



Our stars are all right, co-operation is all right, but it is in 

 ourselves that we are content to strive along individually, each 

 hewing out a separate road to success. If it is true that a man's 

 success is limited only by the limitations he sets on himself, then 

 what of the success that might follow the combined efiforts of 

 a group of men? 



I ask if the Maine Pomological Society could engage in a 

 better work than the encouragement of associated efifort among 

 the fruit growers of the State? This society has the reputation 

 of being an active and enterprising one, and in general it is mak- 

 ing good that reputation. However, here is an opportunity for 

 it to accomplish more than would possibly follow a dozen or 

 more summer field meetings in restricted sections of the State. 

 If it can conceive and put on a working basis, one, two or a half 

 dozen real live co-operative fruit growers' societies, then it will 

 have done something that has not been done in New England. 



I like to think of an organization like this as having person- 

 ality. For instance, you meet a man who impresses you as a 

 man of action. You will see he has character, and perhaps a 

 few rough spots. But you will also find he has a corner that 

 does not crumble off, or even wear to mere roundness when it 

 comes in contact with the world's problems. He is a man of 

 action. He gets results and you know where to find him on 

 certain questions, 365 days in the year. If you want anything 

 done you would like to have him connected with it for you know 

 that if it is possible he will accomplish the desired result. That 

 is the brand of .personality I would like to see stamped on the 

 Maine Pomological Society. The final test of an individual, 

 association or corporation is bound to be, Are results accom- 

 plished? What mattei* the training, the education, the elo- 

 quence, the financial backing, and even existence of a thing, 

 either individual or corporate, if none of these attributes can 

 be turned to account and nothing accomplished/ A result pre- 

 supposes action and it is action for which I plead on the part 



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