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SO much money that he wanted to give up business and enjoy himself ' 

 taliing up any of those professions? No; they all come bacli to the good 

 old farm for rest and recreation and health. Now, why don't we, who 

 are on the farms, get this health and happiness out of them that every- 

 body sees in farm life — that is, everybody except the farmer? Because 

 the farmer is too often engaged in a work that he does not love. Now, 

 if you linow any one who does not love his work on the farm, who does 

 not love to see the trees and vines and shrubs grow, who does not love 

 the stock and the fowl he takes care of and trains, you had better tell 

 him to get off tlie farm as soon as possible, and come to town and go to 

 doctoring or preaching and leave the farms to the people who love them. 

 If you love to cultivate an orchard and prune it and spray it and care 

 for it. whether it bears dollars or not, you will go into the work and take 

 as good care of it when it does not yield as when it does. In the long 

 run. you will get money out of it. You must love the fruit and flowers 

 you cultivate if you would be successful with them. You must lovingly 

 care for them all the way through if you would develop them to their 

 highest possibilities. Tlien when it comes to perfection, gather it care- 

 fully and at the right time. Take it to some proper place, assort it and 

 then pack it in new. neat, wliite. attractive packages, packing as care- 

 fully in the bottom and in the middle of the packages as on the top, pack 

 it jam full, with the very poorest of the fruit in the whole package on 

 top, and then say to the commission man: "These goods are all right all 

 the way through, from top to bottom; they are honestly grown and hon- 

 estly handled. Now. try and make your customers pay fifty per cent, 

 more for it than for the other stuff you have there." 



Mr. Chairman, I think Barnes at this point would quit talking and 

 give the rest of you a chance to "sass" back a little and ask some ques- 

 tions. I think I have rambled around after that white cow enough, and 

 have made a pretty crooked furrow, and I thanlv you for not having gone 

 out. The door has been open all the time, so you certainly could have 

 escaped if you had wanted to. 



Mr. Burton: Dropping the subject of fruit for a moment, I should 

 like to call attention to one subject Mr. Hale touched upon, that is, having 

 fun out of our work and being happy in doing our work. I think we should 

 all try his plan. If it was my business to carry the hod. I should try to 

 feel like the Irishman who wrote back to his friends at home that this 

 was the best country to Avork in. He said that all he had to do was to 

 carry bricks up to the top of the building and there was a man up there 

 who did the work. How happy we would be if we could all look at our 

 work in that way. This is not the case with all our farmers. We ought 

 to give more attention to this subject of enjoyment. I am afraid all farm- 

 ers do not appreciate the fact that it is a grand thing to live on a farm. 



