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your problems better than the University. It is the aim of the 

 University to reach your problems through the boys and girls in 

 this State, and it is a pleasure to me to meet with you here today 

 and meet some men who have friends or perhaps sons in the 

 University. I wish there were more of them. I think the Uni- 

 versity of Maine ought to hold the same position in relation to 

 the farmers of this State that the University of Illinois or Iowa 

 or Ohio or Michigan or some of those other universities do to 

 the people of those states. And if you will help us out I think 

 we can make the University hold this same relation. 



Mr.CiiARLES E. Wheeler : Last winter I went to Hartford, 

 Connecticut, on a trip and it proved to be at the time of the last 

 annual meeting of the Connecticut Pomological Society ; and 1 

 can assure you I appreciated the privilege of attending that meet- 

 ing. I appreciated also the things that I saw there, and I tried 

 to bring home with me some things that might be of help to me, 

 and it may be I will make some suggestions to you from things 

 that I gathered up there during those few^ days. 



In the first place, when I went there to that meeting, I found 

 that it was a large hall like the City Hall of Portland. By ten 

 o'clock the first forenoon, the main body of that house was pack- 

 ed and almost every individual had on one of these badges of 

 membership — six or seven hundred of them — and they had paid 

 their dollar. \\'ouldn't that be a help to us? I think it would. 



C)f course the display of fruit was far different than we find 

 here at our meeting — they hold their exhibition in the fall — al- 

 though there was a good exhibit in the hall below. And with 

 that was one of the points that I wish to make here today. There 

 was an exhibition of all the tools, or many of the tools that an 

 orchardist would use in his business. It was a good display. 

 There was a chance to go and see the working of those machines, 

 as well as you could on floor space, and I know that orders were 

 given and matters were talked over. Wouldn't it be an advan- 

 tage to us to see some spraying apparatus in some hall, or other 

 implements that we need ? Well, there were basket manufactur- 

 ers and others there, the tree-grower was there — the nursery- 

 man, with full display of trees, and lots of other things that 

 would come naturally with those things. 



Now it seems to me that it would be well for our ofificers in 

 years to come to provide for these things, to invite manufactur- 

 ers to exhibit, that we might see those things. 



