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all the agricultural industries in the State, and it should also take 
cognizance of educational and social conditions. 
2. The State should establish experimental apple orchards of 
large area on some of the higher and cheaper lands in several parts 
of the State, at direct State expense, and under the guidance of 
experts, for the purpose of determining how far such lands can 
be used for the growing of export fruit, and what new methods 
must be developed for handling such plantations. 
3. The State should make a thorough-going special inquiry into 
the status and prospects of the animal industries, collecting data on 
which safe and fundamental recommendations can be made for the 
improvement and extension of these industries. 
4. There should be also a strong system of instruction and dis- 
cussion of the farm forest wealth of the State, a movement which 
of itself would direct the utilizing of all lands otherwise unpro- 
ductive, and which would be the greatest single contribution that 
the State could make to the solution of the questions that we are 
now discussing. Such a movement would be working in the line 
of least resistance and with nature rather than against it; for it 
would direct, hasten and concrete the natural and inevitable evolu- 
tion of our higher and remoter lands. The State is giving good 
instruction in many kinds of crops that are of far less importance, 
both to the farming community and to the public weal than the 
forest crop. 
AN APPEAL TO YOUTH. 
Young men and women, [ have something to say to you. I hope 
that I am speaking to some young person who has the love of the 
open country in his heart and who looks out to usefulness in the 
-world. The opportunities out in that farming country are more 
numerous than the men or the farms that you will find there. 
Every question that is asked by a farmer suggests a subject for 
inquiry, and we all wait for the solution. Take hold of something 
because you feel that it will help your fellow man or woman. Do 
not be afraid to see visions. The man who never had a vision is 
dead. No person should enter into service for the purpose of 
developing leadership; he should serve for the sake of the service. 
Leadership is a result of good service and will come as a natural 
consequence. Whatever the problem and no matter how small it 
may seem to you, if you solve it, greater things will come to you. 
The opportunities will be measured only by your ability to see them 
and to handle them. Most of us are so blind that we never see 
