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laid out. The station pays the expenses of the naembers of the 

 council, but no provision is made beyond this. It ma}' be advisa- 

 ble that the bodies which have been invited to send a member to 

 the council, should pay their respective delegates a reasonable com- 

 pensation for their time. There are few in this busy world who can 

 afford to leave their work tor several days without some pay. By 

 all means, secure representation at the meetings of the council. 

 The results may not be so apparent as they sometimes are when a 

 few politicians manipulate the party caucuses, and thereby deter- 

 mine vast State and national interests ; but the interests of the 

 farmers may be involved in all the essential details that go to make 

 up the warp and woof of profitable production. 



In conclusion, I have endeavored to give you briefly the origiu 

 and history of our experiment station. I have shown you somewhat 

 of its work. I have also called your attention to the tendency of 

 the station to engage in purely scientific investigations, and pointed 

 out to you the only way in which you can insure work there that 

 shall accord wi'h your interests. This leads me to saj' that, to the 

 full extent permissible, every farmers' organization should be repre- 

 sented in its management, but it is useless to send men there who 

 have not the ability to discern our needs, or who may be indifl^erent 

 in pressing them before the station officers. The institution was 

 intended for your benefit ; in short, it is yours. Your representatives 

 should first of all be in full sympathy with your work. They should 

 be men of education and sufficient mental calibre to comprehend the 

 work needed, to measure the interests involved, to see beyond the 

 experiments the object sought for. Last, but not least, the}- should 

 be men who have the courage to insist upon having work carried on 

 that is strictly agricultural, for it matters not how good the heart 

 may be, how clearly the object may be comprehended, if there is not 

 behind it the working faith that perseveres unto the end. 



MAINE FRUIT GROWERS' EXCHANGE. 

 During the State Fair Meeting, President Pope i>resented the 

 following paper : 



