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raises on a modest size farm .f 20,000 worth of garden products, at a 

 cost exclusive of land rental of |10,000. These are only two cases 

 out of many which might be cited to show that trained effort 

 applied to agricultural pursuits brings abundant reward. 



Finally, let me say, prompt actio^n should be taken this winter, 

 here, and now to preserve and improve your forests, to furnish 

 facilities for a better and fuller training and education of the rural 

 population, especially the youthful part of it, that citizenship may 

 be elevated and^that the arable land may be increased in produc- 

 tivity. This means that a fuller and more comprehensive education 

 must be offered the farmers' children. In my own State the forces 

 are already gathered at Albany. Some of our lawmakers talk not 

 in thousands but in millions. Schemes are on foot for securing 

 appropriations for a multitude of objects, some good, some bad. 

 1 presume conditions are much the same in your own State. The 

 best organized forces push the hardest and get the most. Are your 

 various organizations united as to the total and separate wants of 

 the people you represent, or is each organization skirmishing for 

 itself; if so, the three other leading industries are likely to secure 

 the lion's share. 



