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this sort are able to give valuable help and ideas to the older men who 

 take information gladly. AVonld that there were more Societies like 

 this in Michigan. If we had had them years ago, we wonld not have 

 to regret the decreased population in Michigan in thirty-five of our 

 counties during the last ten years. The young men would not have 

 found the city life more attractive than the farm life. It has been my 

 pleasure to be associated with a great many young men and I know 

 that some of them have left the College inspired and they gather around 

 tJiem a group of men whom they are not only teaching and are secur- 

 ing their co-operation in making the farm more profitable and Ijeautiful 

 and in making the country life better. Let us join in making a better 

 rural life and if it is made at all, it must be made by the co-operation 

 of all societies and institutions in Michigan. 



''Let us take a survey of Michigan's country life resources: It has 

 young men, it has young women, it has beautiful farms and I am glad 

 that the Michigan Horticultural Society talks about the beautiful side 

 of our horticulture. I am glad that while they are making the fruit 

 farm more profitable they do not hug the dollar so closely that it shuts 

 out the beauty of the blossoms, the beauty of the fruit and the beauty of 

 a sunset in Michigan. I thank you." 



Mr. Garfield: 



"In arranging this program, I purposely turned our attention back- 

 ward. It seems to me that it is worth while occasionally to review our 

 history that we may correct some of our views. I am going to ask one 

 of our most prominent men to say a few words about Michigan Horti- 

 culture in Prospect and I know of no one better equipped to give us 

 a word on this than Prof. Eustace of the M. A. C. I will ask him to 

 say a few words on 'Looking Forward.' " 



Professor Eustace: 



"Mr. Toastmaster, Ladies and Gentlemen: I have been at the M. A. 

 C. for about six years and in that time nearly one hundred and fifty 

 young men have gone out from the department which I have the honor 

 to be connected with. These men are scattered over every state in the 

 Union, some of them in our island possessions. One of my pleasantest 

 duties is to read the experiences of these boys. One day I will get a 

 letter from the East and posssibly the same mail will bring one from 

 the far West telling of his struggle Avith blight or something else. P(is-' 

 sibly the next day a letter will come telling of the soil troubles in Ihe 

 valley of Oregon or Washington, saying that science has been appealed 

 to biit no results seem possible. Then some of the men who are in the 

 fruit distributing business helping the fruit grower spread his product 

 over the country, will write of the fruits that have been placed in his 

 hands from the Northwest. After reading several of these I invariably 

 come to the conclusion that Michigan is the sun-kissed spot. Of course, 

 I suppose I must include Ohio for if I don't Brother Farnsworth might 

 feel slight-ed. 



"Of course our work at the college is hard work but we believe it pays 

 and we think every class is a little bit better than the one that went be- 

 fore. I thank you." 



Mr. Garfield: 



"I want to say that I am glad to be among you tonight and that I 



