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the increased comforts and superior school and church and social 

 advantages of an older community more than compensated for the 

 attractions of a more fertile and more easily tilled but new and 

 distant prairie. Of our rural scenery, and the healthfulness of 

 our climate, and their value as an element in the problem, each 

 can work out an estimate of its value for himself. 



In conclusion, I beheve that the total value of the agricultural 

 productions of this State will continue to increase as a whole, in 

 obedience to that law of adaptation I have discussed, and the State 

 continue to be proud of its intelligent and thrifty farmers. 



At the close of this address resolutions were heartily 

 passed, thanking the exhibitors for their generous contribu- 

 tions of fruit and other products, especially to the Green's 

 Farms Farmers' Club and the Guilford Canning Company ; to 

 the Press, for widely extending a knowledge of the meeting 

 and its proceedings ; to the Railroads, for the facilities fur- 

 nished to those in attendance ; to the speakers, who have 

 brought the fruits of their study ; to the hotels and citi- 

 zens of Newtown, for the many courtesies bestowed, with the 

 assurance that these kindly acts will long be remembered, and 

 that we thus gather strength to do our duty as citizens of the 

 State. 



After a general testing of the fruit on the tables, the Con- 

 vention adjourned sine die. 



