SUCCESS IN FARMING. 93 



PISCATAQUIS COUNTY. 



Institute at Foxcroft. 



Piscataquis Count}' Farmers' Institute was held at the Grange 

 Hall, Foxerol't, October 27. The wide-awake, intelligent farmers 

 of this county, with their wives, turned out in large numbers. Din- 

 ner and supper, for all in attendance, was furnished by the members 

 of Central Grange, whose hall was tendered for the use of the meet- 

 ing. A good choir, with Mrs. D. C. Royal as organist, furnished ; 

 music for the occasion. 



O. T. Goodridge, member for the county, called to order, and.'i 

 invited Obed Towne, President of the Piscataquis Central Agricul- 

 tural Societ}-, to the chair. H. L. Leland briefly' and appropriately 

 welcomed the Institute and the visiting friends, and expresse\.l; the 

 appreciation of the farmers of the county in the work of the Board", 

 as now carried on. 



SUCCESS IN FARMING. 

 By O. T. Goodridge. 



Another year has rolled away since we met on an occasion like • 

 this, with all its hopes and fears, its joys and sor^>v/s, its great . 

 anxiety with regard to seed-time and harvest ; and although the seed- ■ 

 time did indeed seem unpropitious, and to all human appearance 

 foreboding, ^-et the promise of the harvest has been abundantlv ful- 

 filled. In some instances our most sanguine expectations have been 

 more than realized. 



Again we are assembled in a Farmers' Institute to discuss subjects 

 of great interest to the farmer. By the programme I am appointed 

 to open the exercises, and in doing so have chosen the subject of 

 "Success in Farming," on which I will venture to ask some ques- 

 tions, and leave it for others of more experience or better success to . 

 answer them. 



I will first venture the statement that the average farmer does not 

 receive that measure of success that ought to reward his labors. 

 With the amount of capital invested in his farm and stock, and the 

 amount of labor he performs, he should be able to la}' by quite a 

 sum each year, which in time would become qwite a fortune. But 

 whoever saw a rich farmer among us, that made it from his farm , 



