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business idea of that fair to Maine ? There were milHons in that 

 fair for the State of Maine if there was anybody smart enough 

 to have brought it home in their heads. As you all know, the 

 various states made plans for the apple exhibit by having the fruit 

 put in cold storage the fall prior to the fair, and later it was sent 

 to the permanent cold storaee building on the grounds, so that 

 there was fruit at hand day by day to replace any specimens that 

 failed through decay or other means of loss. Friends of mine 

 who visited the fair in May and early June came home and told 

 of the wonderful apple exhibit of some of the far western states 

 and the southwest and said that New England wasn't in it at all. 

 But early in July a great fire destroyed the cold storage building 

 and then the fruit from every section of the country had to stand 

 or fall on its own merits, as there were no specimens to replace 

 the daily decaying ones. In a few short weeks practically all 

 the apple exhibits were wiped out except those from the north- 

 eastern corner of the United States, showing that our apples have 

 keeping and staying qualities superior to those from any other 

 section in America. There was millions in that little idea if 

 Maine had got hold of it. It is a point of tremendous value, and 

 is going to be more so in the future as the demand for good all- 

 the-year-round apples is steadily increasing. You have the soil, 

 you have the climate, you have some of the finest apples, you 

 have thousands and thousands of acres that will produce as fine 

 fruit as can be grown anywhere on earth, and all it wants is men 

 and women who have faith in themselves and in the business to 

 practically apply culture on an extended scale. No amount of 

 hard work will win the highest success. Men work too hard but 

 they think too little. If I was a preacher and was going about to 

 preach to farm audiences, I would take for my subject "judicious 

 laziness," and I would preach to the farmers to be judiciously 

 lazy. Don't work so hard that you haven't a rested brain that 

 can think and plan about your business. 



I want to emphasize the fact that our fruit growing cannot be 

 very successful without the most thorough tillage of the soil and 

 thorough preparation of the soil, and to show what it does on 

 land, on good land and poor land, I want to cite an instance 

 from the wonderfully fertile soil of the Sacramento valley of 

 California. I went there some years ago to visit the great farm 

 of Gen. John Bidwell, whom some of you voted for perhaps for 



