12 AGRICULTURE OF MAINE. 



should not raise just as good apples as she raises men, because 

 the men have the brains to produce the apples. And, therefore, 

 we ought to have both men and apples of the very highest and 

 best quality. I noticed in one of the papers the other day about 

 some fruit-growing people out in Kansas sending the President 

 a wedding present of a barrel of apples, and a suggestion was 

 contained in the paper, that I want to second here most heartily, 

 namely, that out of this magnificent exhibit downstairs, the very 

 finest and the best of those apples down there in that hall — 

 this is the suggestion of the paper, not mine, I am merely sec- 

 onding it and saying go ahead — that the very best and the 

 finest be selected and a barrel be made up and sent to the Presi- 

 dent as a wedding present from Maine, that he may see, as the 

 papers say, what regular apples are like. 



The Chamber of Commerce welcomes you because it stands 

 for enterprise, push and up-to-date methods. You are studying 

 your business. You are striving for perfection of product. 

 Perfection means success. You are making intelligent appli- 

 cation of scientific methods to secure best results. That ap- 

 peals to us, to the Chamber of Commerce. Nothing worth 

 while is ever realized through indifi'erent, haphazard, lazy, moss- 

 back, old fogy methods. We hear much about developing 

 Maine. You are helping to develop Maine by the surest and 

 most practical method that can be devised. Developing Maine 

 is not a hot air process. It is not a hot air job. It is downright, 

 conscientious hard work, developing her resources and earnestly 

 and intelligently using her natural endowments. It is a process 

 of getting by painstaking labor the most and the best products 

 from every available acre of her farm land, from her industrial 

 workshops. The apple surely is a glory to the State of Maine. 

 Go downstairs and see what there is there — great, big, luscious, 

 red-cheeked, crimson, green and golden apples — firm flesh, 

 economic in food value, health giving, hearty and appetizing. 

 Do what you will with your oranges and lemons, your pine- 

 apples and your prunes, give me a Maine apple for the all-round 

 satisfaction of a staple fruit. We welcome you because you are 

 cultivating the finest fruit God ever gave to man. We want 

 you to come again. 



