14 AGRICUIvTURE OF MAINE. 



To a man who had spent all his life in mercantile business, it 

 was amazing to learn the volume of the fruit industry of this 

 State and the loose method of its disposal. Of three evils we 

 can choose the least: the Boston commission man, the specula- 

 tor at our door, and the foreign market with all its "ifs" of 

 chilled, slack, wet and bad order. This is not business, it is 

 merely producing and taking what you get. We are surely big 

 enough and strong enough to do what the Danes have done, and 

 they have accomplished much in the marketing of their products, 

 by co-operation. 



Permit me once more, Mr. Mayor, to thank you and the citi- 

 zens of Auburn and carry the additional message to your citi- 

 zens that by the active co-operation of your Board of Trade they 

 have proven their deep interest in the welfare of your beautiful 

 city, and shown that its business interests are in safe hands. 



President Twitchell: There is no state in all the Union 

 which has a governor more honored than is the Governor of the 

 State of Maine ; there is no state in all the Union which has a 

 chief executive, tonight, who is more thoroughly committed to 

 the development of his state and the building up of its resources 

 than is Hon. B. M. Fernald, the chief executive of the State of 

 Maine, whom I now have the pleasure of presenting to you. 



