224 AGRICULTURE OF MAINE. 



REMARKS. 



By Hon. Z. A. Giebert, North Greene. 



I wish that I might have prepared something to give you, 

 from my own work, but I have not the facts and figures before 

 me at this time. I would endorse much that has been said in 

 connection with the exercises' of the afternoon. It has been 

 the pleasure of my life to establish some factors in these lines 

 and put them into my own work. And it has been a great sur- 

 prise and a great pleasure as well to note the resuUs that I have 

 received from this kind of work. Allusion has been made this 

 afternoon to feeding and breeding and the results that may be 

 accomplished through correct processes in those lines of work. 

 I have been a breeder for a good many years, and in that time 

 I have fed the stock with my own hands and never have I fed 

 a line of stock in my barn without carrying with it the thought 

 of what I was trying to do, what I wanted to accomplish. The 

 thought of the future should go with this kind of work. I 

 hardly see how it is possible for any one to carry on farm work 

 without putting the intellect into it in full measure, — learning 

 these facts and fixing them in the mind, and, Mr. President, it is 

 that kind of work that makes successful farming, — intelligent 

 thought as you are carrying on the farm. If I were to name 

 the points which will bring you success in your business, I should 

 say, first, that thorough work will bring you successful results. 

 There is no reason why you should be satisfied with indiflferent 

 results in connection with your farm crops. You should have 

 bountiful crops and use them in your own line of work. This 

 idea of going to the West for crops to feed to your cows is all 

 wrong. The soil that you are handling from week to week, 

 from month to month and from year to year, will give you all 

 that is necessary for successful work in carrying on your farm. 

 It has been my aim in life to grow from the soil that I own what 

 1 need for carrying it on, to make the farm self-supporting and 

 measurably profitable in its results. This has largely been ac- 

 complished. It is what we all want and what we all can re- 

 ceive when we put ourselves into the work in full measure. I 

 wish I could enforce upon the mind of every young man the 



