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suppose he expected to get money out of that? That man was 

 doing it for pure fun. 



Mr. Louis E. Clay, (representing the New England Home- 

 stead) : I have met many of the leading fruit growers of the 

 state, not only at the meeting this year here in Harrison but at 

 the meeting a year ago at Canton, the first Pomological meeting 

 that it was my privilege to attend in this state. It seems to me 

 there is a great deal of enthusiasm practically shown ; practical 

 experiences are talked over and you get not only the successes 

 of the fruit growers but you get their failures. The talking over 

 in open meeting of errors made by fruit growers and the sug- 

 gestions of remedies form one of the most important phases 

 of the meeting to my mind. 



Surely the agricultural press has a very grave duty, if I may 

 speak of it in that way, to exercise great care in placing before 

 its readers only the best and the most accurate of information 

 in any particular branch that it covers. 



I can assure you that the interest which is being exhibited at 

 this meeting is gratifying and at the same time pleasing, and 

 I think if the fruit-growers will only realize what a power for 

 good they hold in united action for the furtherance of their inter- 

 ests, they will find that the agricultural press will be of great 

 assistance in aiding them in the direction of their own benefit 

 and of course for the benefit of their children as well. 



Mr. B. F. W. Thorpe, (Editor of Maine Farmer) : It is 

 always an inspiration to a newspaper man to look into the faces 

 of those whom he knows are working in the same line that he 

 is trying to work. My visits in this part of Maine have been 

 few, but I have found that Oxford and Cumb^land counties 

 are hard to surpass in Maine, and I think any other State. It 

 has been my privilege to see some half of the States of our 

 Union and see more or less of them. I have now been in Maine 

 for nearly three years and have seen much of the territory of 

 Maine, and I assure you that when I make the comparison 

 between Maine and the other parts of the country, that I have 

 no cause to regret that my field of labor is in this State. 



Before coming to Maine my impression was like that of many 

 others who have never been in the State. The line of travel to 

 Maine, unless one comes as a summer visitor, is out of the track 

 that most people get in, and they get the wrong impression of 



