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has ever yet been struck. The books that are published by this 

 society are only received and read by a few individuals. We meet 

 together and talk these matters over among ourselves, but these 

 meetings do not exert the influence on the community they ought 

 to have, or that we would wish them to do. Now, how are we going 

 to work up that interest? The people appear to be dead to their 

 own interests; how are we going to wake them up? I feel sat- 

 isfied that if we could employ some man to go over this state 

 and hold meetings with the farmers, and get them together and 

 teach them that trees are necessary for their well being, for the 

 protection of themselves and their live stock, it would be the proper 

 way to awaken an interest, and in this way you could wake them 

 up to a sense of duty to themselves and the community in general. 

 I believe that all the state and government aid that may be extended, 

 without proper missionary effort of this kind, will never accomplish 

 the desired results. With the right kind of man traveling around 

 in this way, it is my opinion that an interest might be awakened 

 among the people; that they would see for themselves the necessity 

 of having trees to protect themselves, and to make their homes 

 more attractive for themselves and their families. 



As this gentleman has just remarked, the only thing that will 

 keep the boys at home on the farm, is to make it attractive. You 

 cannot do it without educating them. Home becomes dreary to 

 them and they want to get into the city. We must stop this. We 

 must try to get the people educated to the importance of making 

 the home more attractive, and then the boys will not want to go 

 away. If we will curtail a little the book that we publish, getting 

 it down to a smaller compass, and then send a man into the differ- 

 ent counties, who will go to the principal towns, to try and get the 

 people aroused, I am satisfied we will succeed in this matter. It is 

 a well known fact that if the people think they can't raise fruit they 

 won't try to, and for that reason it is neglected. It has been 

 neglected in the past and will be neglected in the future, until this 

 reform is brought about. 



REMARKS BY MR. ALLEN. 



That sort of wakes up a channel in my mind. I am fond of 

 home and always was. It looks pleasant to me now, when I 

 look back to old Connecticut, among the rocks and hills. When 

 you talk about educating a boy to love his home and stay at home, 

 you must take a different course from what most of us out West 

 are taking. Now, that gentleman gave us a beautiful picture of 

 what a home ought to be, but you find such pictures as that scarce 



