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know the condition of the fruit crop all over the country, because 

 it is their bread and butter, but it is bread and butter and pie to 

 the grower if they only knew it and what Yankee don't want pie ? 

 A dead one is all the one I know. And so it comes that we need 

 a knowledge of our business, and when we get that knowledge 

 we shall know each for himself whom to sell to and when to sell. 

 But we can't have any general rule that we will all sell to Boston 

 and that we will all sell on the 17th day of November, — not at 

 all. We want the knowledge of marketing conditions, and pro- 

 ductive conditions, and climatic conditions, and then apply that 

 knowledge each for himself and to himself and by himself, or 

 through an organization if you will, but in a general way we need 

 all that in our head. That is where the money is made in your 

 business. That is where the success comes in your business. 

 Main strength and awkwardness is at very low premium every- 

 where. Brains, intelligent brains that may be well directed in 

 any business are worth money, and they are worth just as much 

 in agriculture and just as much in horticulture as anywhere else. 

 I believe myself, as one who was born on a New England farm, 

 and has lived all his life on a New England farm, that the busi- 

 ness of agriculture today rightly managed in New England will 

 pay better dividends than any other business in New England 

 today. 



And I say to you now, and I say particularly to you fathers 

 and mothers who have got boys coming up, if you will impress 

 upon them what there is lying locked up in the good old soil of 

 Maine today, and show them the opportunities of New England 

 agriculture, show them the opportunities that may come to them 

 through these societies and through the work of the Grange, and 

 through your agricultural press and through your college over 

 here at Orono and your Experiment Station, they need not go 

 to New York, Boston, or any of the large cities to make a living, 

 they can stay right here on the farm. And a man can get a lot 

 of fun that he can't get anywhere else, the enjoyment that comes 

 from working with trees and plants and the soil and with Mother 

 Nature, providing your mind is open to receive it. I know some 

 people don't see that. They don't get the pleasure out of it, the 

 glorious enjoyment of working with these beautiful pictures on 

 this table, and the trees that grow them, and the little plants that 

 grow out of the soil. All that has a wonderful joy in it if we are 



