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ins and outs of fruit culture, furnish tiimself with clothes and partly, 

 at least, pay the expense of an education. 



Most parents have a laudable desire to leave some of this world's 

 goods to their children. What better way eould be devised than to 

 plant a fev;- apple trees for each one of them every jear, and see 

 that they have proper care. A little expenditure of this kind wisely 

 made will soon grow into a handsome property. 



We too often lose sight of the fact that the boy of to-day will be 

 the man of to-morrow, and no one can over-estimate the importance 

 of the influence brought to bear upon the youthful mind. 



The farmer is quick to learn the effect of early training upon the 

 horse, and knows full well that his future usefulness largely depends 

 upon the treatment he receives the first few years. How much more 

 important, then, should be the early instruction of a 3'oung mind 

 capable of accomplishing so much of either good or evil in this 

 world, and when done with this life is destined to enter upon another 

 of endless duration. 



However much agriculture be depressed in other parts of the 

 world, the farmer of Maine who will make an intelligent use of his 

 opportunities, has a bright future before him. If he will combije 

 sheep husbandly or dairying with fruit culture and conduct his busi- 

 ness with intelligence, system and energy, his bank account will 

 constantly surprise him by its growth. There will be no need of 

 over-work for himself, wife or children, and if in the treatment of 

 his family he will ever bear in mind that after a few more shifting 

 season*, his bo3's will be men and he will enter his second childhood, 

 he will find health and happiness in his household and have no fears 

 that his children will desert the homestead. 



What a grand opportunity we have to boom this State ! If a few 

 people would only take hold of the subject with the same faith and 

 perseverance that the people of Sioux City did year after year with 

 their corn palace, the State of Maine might double its agricultural 

 wealtti in a short time. 



Every one here who has given any study to the subject at all, 

 knows that there are untold possibilities in apple raising in the Pine 

 Tree State. One hundred dollars wisely expended in setting apple 

 trees, will, in a few years, become a thousand. 



There are in the State nearly sixty- five thousand farms, averag- 

 ing a little more than a hundred acres each. If there were set on 

 an average during the next few j'ears ten acres of the best apple 



