120 agriculture: 01? MAINE). 



TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 6. 



The meeting was opened at 7.30 by F. S. Adams, president 

 Maine Dairymen's Association. Invocation by Rev. L. W. 

 •Coons, Augusta. 



ADDRESS OF WELCOME FROM THE BUSINESS IN- 

 TERESTS OF AUGUSTA, 



By E. C. Carll, President Augusta Board of Trade. 

 Gentlemen of the Maine Dairymen's Association and the Maine 



Seed Improvement Asosciation: 



I take great pleasure in tendering to you the welcome of the 

 Augusta Board of Trade and of the commercial interests of the 

 Capital City of Maine. Others will speak for Capital Grange 

 with its splendid membership and for the city of Augusta. 

 Speaking for the Board of Trade, I welcome you to our business 

 street and to our mercantile and manufacturing establishments, 

 assured that you will find prosperous and progressive business 

 men. Cotton and shoe manufactories, pulp, paper and lumber 

 mills, all have recently increased their capacity and added up- 

 to-date improvements, and more are under way. The construc- 

 tion contracts completed in Augusta in 1910, including the State 

 House, Rines Hill crossing, post office. Insane Hospital, im- 

 provements of the Edwards Manufacturing Company and ex- 

 tensive mercantile and dwelling construction, amount to nearly 

 one million dollars. Our two great publishing houses have 

 nearly 500 employes and a circulation of 3,200,000 copies per 

 month. Af the present time the Augusta post office is dispatch- 

 ing four full carloads of publications a day. $80,000,000 of 

 mail matter passes through our post office each year, making it 

 one of the largest offices in the country. Two great institutions, 

 the Maine Insane Hospital and the National Home at Togus, 

 each with a population equal to a good sized town, help swell 



