650 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



ing the perishable fruit produce not only in large cities but in towns, 

 doing the work more thoroughly and cheaply than it was ever done 

 before. These associations, all working for the same end, would make 

 an exact and efficient working knowledge of markets possible to farmers 

 in general and would greatly systematize and steady our markets. 



But the third and greatest difficulty, ruinous monopoly of means and 

 agencies of distribution, would be largely overcome. While railroads 

 pay little attention to the single farmer they become the obliging servant 

 of a large association with a great producing power. The California fruit 

 associations get the best rates, the swiftest and the best trains, and good 

 connections by rail and steamships even to Breat Britian. 



The control of staple food products would be the greatest monopoly in 

 the world. The farmers could store and sell their own wheat and more 

 thoroughly distribute their fruit at far less cost to both producer and 

 consumer. Again, such associations could largely do away with the com- 

 mission merchant and make their own terms with boards of trade. 



To bring about these beneficial results the farmers of the country 

 need first a thorough knowledge of markets. That they may intelligently 

 fulfil their part in an association, they need a class of business men whose 

 sympathies lie with the farmer, whose business ability is unquestioned. 

 Second, They all need honesty. When their partnership makes a contract 

 they must stand by it. In fact, the law may be invoked to hold them to 

 it as in any partnership. They must also pack their fruit or other pro- 

 duce honestly, so that their association may be trusted by its patrons. 



The farmer then must himself attend to the development of his own 

 markets. He is bending labor, machinery, science and Yankee ingenuity 

 to the task of growing two blades of grass where one grew while all the 

 world of industries beyond him in development sneer at him because he 

 does not better dispose of his one blade. 



The whole trend of our industrial development is toward the business 

 association of man and man, a greater inter-dependence of men and far 

 grander industrial accomplishments. The farmer resists his own control 

 of markets at his own peril. Unjust monopoly and mismanagement of 

 markets threaten not only the farmer but the vast population which the 

 farmer feeds. Not only his own just interest but those of the world 

 demand that he arise to the emergency. 



THE REALM OF WOMAN. 



COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS BY PEARL KEDZIE. 



If there is one word in the English language which is dearer to us 

 than any other, that word is "'home.'' It enshrines all thai is most 

 precious, that is most sacred to the human heart. The old adage, "home 

 is home, be it ever so homely," appeals to all. From the camp of the 

 savage under the open sky or the tiny cottage of the laborer to the 

 magnificent palaces in our great cities — each one is a home with all its 

 import. No man is poor who has still a spot to call home, and no man 

 is rich who has no home. 



The home is a necessity for the perfect life and development of good 

 citizens. How can one describe it? It is there that the weary laborer 



