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and Mr. Tripp are before you in the results of their first year's 

 work, and from your own observation of those results you can 

 draw your own conclusions. Through the work begun by this 

 association we were able to make at the New England Corn 

 Show an exhibition of which every citizen of Maine who saw 

 it was justly proud. Hundreds of business and professional 

 men from other states at that show told me personally that they 

 w^ere astonished, and that the exhibit would be worth thousands 

 of dollars to the State of Maine as an advertisement; for they 

 were all desirous of Maine seed if they were sure it was good. 

 And it seems to me that the work at this meeting should de- 

 mand our best efforts, and most conservative consideration that 

 we make no false move. I am so sure that the members are 

 awake to the importance of this fact that I have no fears of 

 the result, but rather that we shall be astonished at what we 

 shall accomplish in the year to come ; especially at what we shall 

 do in the practical experiments on our farms. 



Remember that this meeting is not for two days at some 

 central point in our State, but continues for the entire year in 

 the work on our farms that we undertake as a part of this 

 meeting. 



