DAIRY AND SEED IMPROVEMENT MEETINGS. I59 



great factor in securing an appropriation to carry on breeding 

 experiments at Orono. 



The Seed Improvement xA.ssociation is a much younger body. 

 While it has taken a strong hold of the situation and has done 

 good work, it may be truly' said that its best work is ahead. Its 

 work has been seriously handicapped by the unusual climatic 

 conditions during the last two seasons. 



Its purpose is to induce farmers to give more attention to 

 the selection of seed, to plant only those seeds that are mo .t 

 vigorous and those strains that will make the largest yield. 

 Also we believe that most of our seed' should be raised in this 

 state. 



The relationship of city to country is one of peculiar signifi- 

 cance in these idays. It is safe to say that our interests are 

 mutual and not antagonistic, as some men seem to think. One 

 cannot exist nor prosper without the other. The country feeds 

 the city; the city supplies the country with many of its necessi- 

 ties. They have a common interest in schools, in roads, in 

 methods of taxation, in financial matters. 'The water that 

 turns the wheels of your industry also falls upon our fields, 

 giving life and conveying sustenance to plant and animal. 



Not only do we feed you, but you come out and take from us 

 many of our young men and women and set them at work 

 upon your industries. Our surplus savings are left with your 

 banks to invest. Our homes upon a thousand hills are opened 

 to you as our guests. There never was a time when we were 

 so linked together as now. x\nd he who advocates one line of 

 legislation for the city and another line for the country fails in 

 interpreting the signs of the times. 



It is right for you to ask of us better food products and to 

 grade and pack them better than we have been doing. It is right 

 for us to patronize your stores and your factories. It is also 

 right for you to buy your food products of us rather than go out 

 of the state. It is right that our banks afiford us the same op- 

 portunities you enjoy. In all things our interests are mutual. 

 Our future prosperity will depend greatly upon our recognition 

 jf this fact. 



