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all have good ideas, and it is time that we spoke right out in meeting 

 and have it mean something. 



A Member — This is not a political organization. Once Henry Ward 

 Beecher expressed the attitude that it seems to me we could adopt. 

 Just about election time he met a young minister to whom he said some- 

 thing about political matters, when the young man excused his lack of 

 interest by saying that his citizenship was in heaven. Beecher re- 

 sponded, '"Then I think you had better get it down to earth until after 

 election." 



A Member — What we want are men in the legislature that are inter- 

 ested in our business — men who are themselves farmers and fruit 

 growers — and this is the kind of people we want to have represent us. 



A Member — ^I would like to know definitely how nmny farmers there 

 were in the last legislature? If I am not mistaken I think there were 

 forty-four farmers, plenty enough to carry the bill. I think the thing 

 to do is to train some of the farmers we already have. 



Mr. Bassett — I think the proper thing to do is to train the governor 

 — he is the one who needs training. 



Mr. Cook — I have had a little experience in the legislative work, and 

 I have been surprised to find that only about one-half of these farmers 

 have the ability to discriminate as they should. A good lawyer from a 

 shrewd corporation is more than a match for these farmers. It is up 

 to us to put good clear-headed men up for these places of trust. The 

 man who is in the thing for a fee is not fit for our legislative hall, nor 

 is the man who has too many irons in the fire. But these things can 

 not all come in a minute — they must come slow. Not one farmer in 

 ten is making any study of agriculture as a profession. It is such an 

 agitation as this' that will build up sentiment, and help us along in 

 lines that we are wanting help for the betterment of our condition. 



A Member — The trouble is not alone with the legislature— it is up 

 to the Governor — it seems to be in his hands. I think it would be well 

 to put something in our resolutions touching this matter, and then let 

 him know of our action. The people who keep quiet will never get any- 

 thing. 



IS LIME-SULPHUR A SATISFACTORY SUBSTITUTE FOR BOR- 

 DEAUX IN THE SUMMER SPRAYING OF APPLES. 



PRESIDENT T. A'. FARRAXD, EATOX RAPIDS. 



For the last ten years I have danced to the fiddling of every President, 

 Mr. Cook included, and your secretary, and the members of this asso- 

 ciation, at all times and in all places, and you don't know how much 

 fun I have had out of the thought that the time had come when I could 

 sit on the fence and see these fellows dance to my fiddling. But all my 

 dreams have been only dreams, and I find I am in the grind just the 

 same now as ever. 



I will endeavor to give you briefly my experience along the line of 

 the topic assigned me. 



Lime-sulphur has been a very good substitute for the old Bordeaux 



