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seventy-five cents get out and walk, and the rest of you keep 

 your setting." The only trouble with the gentleman this after- 

 noon was that he didn't count those that were pushing. 



Mrs. V. P. DeCoster of Buckfield : I am just going to say a 

 word of what this meeting means to me and what T think it 

 does to a good many of us. Last week I had a letter from a 

 young student who has gone to Orono this year to take the agri- 

 cultural course. In that he said, "I can't tell you how much it 

 means to me coming here. The very association with the 

 students and teachers is an inspiration. Although I am handi- 

 capped by not being able to use my eyes and have to have my 

 lessons read to me, the experience of being here and seeing the 

 work done and the atmosphere of the student life is so uplifting 

 that it is worth all it costs." 



I think it is just that way with these pomological meetings. 

 There is an atmosphere, there is a feeling of uplift, of inspiration, 

 in mingling with these men and women that are interested in 

 this noble work. For I know of no work that is nobler than 

 raising fruits and flowers. As we study nature's laws and work 

 in harmony with them in perfecting these wonderful things that 

 God has given us, as we work along these lines striving every 

 year to produce something a little better than has ever been 

 produced before, it refines our characters and uplifts our 

 thoughts ; it brings us nearer to God in studying his laws. It 

 seems to me that there is no w^ork in the world that men and wo- 

 m.en can enjoy and can find more pleasure and profit, and fun as 

 Prof. Gulley says, than in this work among the fruits and flow- 

 ers. 



Prof. Maxwell J. Dorsay: I am glad to be afifiliated with 

 two such organizations as we find represented here tonight, — ■ 

 the State Pomological Society and the Grange. This banquet 

 is just what we would expect from the Grange, and the fruit 

 exhibit below is just what we would expect from the State 

 Pomological Society. I am glad to be affiliated with these two 

 organizations whose object is not only the raising of better crops 

 but living better lives and having better homes. 



Solon Chase: I was seventy years young when I got the 

 apple tree religion. When I was fifty years old I knew so 

 much I couldn't learn any more, and now^ that I am more than 

 eighty I see so much to learn that I am hardly sure of anything 



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