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grower, sort and pack the same, make the sales and be responsible 

 to those who bring the fruit in the payment for the same — [hs Society 

 to receive a certain per cent to cover costs. 



B3' malving Portland a shipping centre, suitable storage room can 

 be obtained, and when an agent fiora any large purchasing firm is in 

 pursuit of a first-class article, those lots having the brand of ihe 

 Society to recommend them will at once attract attention, and as its 

 reputation for honest practice and deal may become establi.shed, it 

 will prove a medium through which the average orchardist may dis- 

 pose of his product, feeling sure that it stands an equal chance with 

 that of his neighbor, and receive a corresponding amount as a result 

 for his care and labor. 



I have a strong and confiding faith in the future prosperity of our 

 noble Slate. All I am, all I ever expect or hope to be is bound up 

 in the possibilities, nay, the probabilities that are soon to be grasped. 

 The earlier strivings of ray ambition were directed in the line of 

 securing a herd of thoroughbred Jerseys worth}" a place on an}' 

 farm, and success has attended n\y efforts. My next move was for 

 an orchard, and after purchasing an outlying farm well located and 

 adapted to my purpose, what leisure time I can command is devoted 

 to the pleasing and encouraging work of both grafting and pruning 

 as well as the transplanting of hundreds of trees that take kindly to 

 the soil made ready to receive them. Whatever of weal or woe, 

 therefore, that fickle nature or force of circumstances may bring to 

 the country, I shall try and be prepared to meet the result, always 

 looking forward to that long expected time when farmers will be the 

 "kings of the land" and their reign usher in the day of universal 

 prosperity. 



