DAIRY AND SEED IMPROVEMENT MEETINGS. I95 



RESPONSE. 



W. G. HuNTON, Cherryfield. 



I appear before you tonight as a drafted man from the 

 ranks. I was not selected for this until a few days ago, but 

 I wish to say in behalf of the Maine Dairymen's Association 

 and the Maine Seed Improvement Association that we know 

 full well what the hospitality of Bangor is. While I wish to 

 thank your Mayor for the cordial welcome which he has 

 extended to us, we felt sure of that welcome when we first 

 heard of the invitation to come to Bangor. We have been 

 here many times before and we certainly feel pleased whenever 

 opportunity offers to come to this one of the northern cities of 

 our state, one which has ever responded so heartily to the 

 appeals of every agricultural enterprise that was ever started 

 in the State of Maine. Your Mayor spoke tonight of that 

 wonderful thing, cooperation, especially in connection with our 

 agricultural interests. When these associations were first 

 formed — and there are many of us who assisted in the forma- 

 tion of both of them — they were formed almost entirely for 

 the educational advantage which they should be both to the 

 producer and to the consumer; and we have but to look at 

 these exhibits tonight and then think back in our own minds to 

 what our exhibits were in former years, to feel well satisfied 

 with the progress that has been made in educational lines. But 

 when I listened to that word it seemed to me that today there 

 is developing another feature, one that we did not understand 

 when we first incorporated these two great associations, that 

 is taking the lead of all that we have hoped for from coop- 

 eration; I refer to this new idea which is so fast developing, 

 of fraternity, — how much one class of individuals in this state, 

 in this country, in this world, is dependent on all other classes. 



