ADDRESS, 



By His Excellency, Gov. B. M. Fernald. 

 Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: 



I have rarely been so complimented as I have been this even- 

 ing- in yonr introduction, Mr. President, and I thought as I lis- 

 tened to my old friend, your Mayor — for we were boys togeth- 

 er — that I wished I was a resident of the city of Auburn. 



As I look about this hall and into your countenances, and at 

 the fruit and flowers and potted plants before me, I am prompted 

 to say this to you. — that to achieve success is the desire and 

 duty of every man, woman and child in the State of Maine. 

 What is success? That man who stands at or near the head 

 of any profession or business in which he is engaged is a suc- 

 cessful man. And judging from this standpoint, where can you 

 find, Mr. President, in the United States, more successful fruit 

 growers than we have in the State of Alaine. I doubt if there 

 is another state in the whole Union that could produce fruit of 

 such beautiful color atid such excellent flavor, as you see before 

 you this evening. 



What is success? I have already. said that that man who stood 

 at or near the head of any profession or business with which 

 he was associated was a successful man. And if there is any one 

 business that a young man who is willing to work, who is will- 

 ing to have patience, who is willing to put eflfort into his daily 

 life, can go into with almost a certainty of success, it is that of 

 farming. And where can there be anything more beautiful in 

 life than to see the elderly gentleman, who has set out the fruit 

 trees in his boyhood it may be, grow up and ripen into old age 

 with the fruitage about him, with the trees that he set in youth, 

 seeing his children coming up and enjoying the benefit of the 

 fruits and the fruit trees he set in early life. 



Now I am engaged in all kinds of farming. I am not par- 

 ticularly engaged in fruit growing more than in stock growing, 

 and in other lines of farming. And in the State of Maine we 

 have, right here in this county and in the .''djoining counties. 



