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doing this today. The tide has begun to ebb back towards New 

 England, and our land is going to be in better demand by these 

 men who want to work out these new ideas, and people are learn- 

 ing to appreciate more and more the good climate, soil, water, 

 etc., that is not excelled by any state in the Union. 



Young men and young women, we honor your judgment. 

 Where else can you find a better state to make a home; where 

 else can you provide yourself with so much of the real comfort 

 of home life for the same money value as here in Vermont, 

 where land is comparatively cheap, where market facilities are 

 good, good schools, good society, and the best of everything 

 that goes to make life worth the living? Yes, we honor your 

 judgment in making Vermont your home, and this society ex- 

 tends to you its greetings. It needs your enthusiasm and help, 

 and in return pledges its support to you in the work of improve- 

 ment and advancement. 



Markets — Will the time ever come when the market will 

 be crowded beyond its profitable limit in fruits? I believe not, 

 for unlike most products, every sale of fancy fruit makes a 

 market for more, and people will learn to consume more and 

 more as the quality improves. I remember a friend some years 

 ago visited California, and they were then planting very large- 

 ly to fruit in that state, and he told me he asked his brother, 

 with whom he was visiting at the time, "What will these people 

 do with this fruit when these trees all come to bearing? The mar- 

 ket will be flooded." And he said, " I have lived to see those trees 

 all in bearing and the market is better than before." The market 

 will be poor for the poorly raised and poorly packed fruit, but 

 for the fancy grades there will always be a good demand and 

 good prices will compensate those who produce that kind. Then 

 let us do all we can to develop the true idea of advancement and 

 ever strive to encourage the best endeavor of all who are plant- 

 ing and caring for these products of our soil. Not for the 

 dollar alone, but for what it means in that higher development 

 of manhood and womanhood, better and happier homes, purer 

 and more noble lives and all that goes to make life the real and 

 not the fancied. 



In coming to Vergennes for this meeting, we came to the 

 largest apple growing county in the State. We came to learn 

 from each other, and get new inspiration in our work, that we 

 may go home to do a year's work in 1905 a little, yes, a good 

 deal better than the year just past. We came to you for this, 

 yet not this alone, but that we might bring to you of Addison 

 County, through these speakers from abroad and by this exhibit, 

 ideas that might stimulate you to not only lead all the other 

 counties, but that you might make such strides of advancement 



