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edge of the time, and the results of their investigations are the 

 property of him who will read them. As our early pioneers 

 pushed ahead into new lands to subjugate them and turn them to 

 good account, so have the pioneers of science pushed ahead into 

 unknown and unseen worlds and found for us the laws in ac- 

 cordance with which not only our plants and animals but our- 

 selves must live. It was a son of Vermont, Justin Morrill, to 

 whom a memorial will soon be erected on yonder campus, who, 

 by the founding of the agricultural colleges and experiment sta- 

 tions, made this great work possible. Then as sons of Vermont 

 we should be the first to receive this new truth and show what 

 can be accomplished by its application. The great need of our 

 agriculture is men to apply the truth we have with some of that 

 enthusiasm and faith which has been so characteristic of the 

 other professions. This society is a good place for it to start. 

 Once started the spirit will be contagious and I believe the re- 

 sults will be amazing. 



Again, we may attract attention to horticulture by adver- 

 tising its opportunities. What are they? Surely not those of 

 the New York Lyife, the Equitable or the Mutual. You can't 

 systematically steal from nature without having your salary im- 

 mediately cut down. But there are opportunities to make honest 

 work count. Opportunity in business consists simply in giving 

 the world what it wants. Its wants are increasing every year. It 

 wants more packages of perfect apples, more baskets of perfect 

 strawberries, more clusters of roses. The man who anticipates 

 these wants and makes ready to supply them makes his own op- 

 portunities. Our soil, our climate, our location — all ideal, are 

 waiting for the touch of man. If you wish examples of rewards 

 of success take Kinney of Grand Isle or Hemenway of Addison. 

 Patient, careful, thoughtful work has brought its reward and 

 will in every case. 



Most of us were brought up to hold the people of Japan in 

 slight regard. But all the time there were unseen forces at work 

 the results of which have astonished the world. Japanese youth 

 were sent to other countries to be educated and they were en- 

 couraged to go home and put in practice the best which they had 

 learned. That broad, open minded spirit made Japan a world 

 power. That same spirit infused into our youth would make a 

 Nczv Vermont. Let us as members of this society do all we can 

 to encourage and foster it. 



