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got out of that business out into the open air. His physician 

 told him to come to Maine and get outside, get out into the air. 

 He left his home, came to Maine, bought a farm — six years ago 

 this was — knowing nothing of farming, and since that time I 

 have learned that he is learning the business and is especially 

 devoting his energies to fruit growing in this county. He has 

 got into comfortable circumstances, has regained health, and. is 

 now able to follow the most arduous toil from sunrise to sunset. 

 Now this has been more than success to him. It has been life 

 itself. 



Just adjoining him a young man came from Nova Scotia and 

 I was talking with him only Saturday last. He came here two 

 years ago; through the influence of the paper I represent he 

 learned of Maine fruit growing possibilities and came to this 

 State and found a farm adjoining the gentleman that I have just 

 mentioned. Here he bought eighty acres of farm land and has 

 started in there to become a fruit grower, that is, an apple grower. 

 Beginning with a wornout orchard, or at least an orchard in poor 

 state of growth and fruiting, he has got that now started so that 

 he tells me that he has grown apples there this year that exceed 

 anything he has ever seen of Baldwins in the noted Annapolis 

 Valley which is famed for being more largely for the same area 

 engaged in apple growing, and more successful than any other 

 similar area in the world. He says that Maine with the same 

 energy and the same skill can outclass that noted valley, and he 

 has the goods to prove it with from that old orchard. His idea 

 is to begin now and set out one hundred trees each year until 

 he gets at least a thousand trees, and he is fully satisfied that this 

 land— eighty acres that he paid $3,000 for— is well worth more 

 than the land that there costs $100 an acre. That is, he said for 

 the $3,000 farm he would have to pay at least $8,000 in that 

 valley, and he can get better results, better market, and more 

 successful fruit raising. 



Dr. C. D. Woods, Director State Experiment Station. 

 There is nothing that touches the agriculture of Maine in any 

 way, be it fruit growing or what it may be, that is not of vital 

 interest to the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station. We 



