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there is no market for them. It would not pay to box 

 them up and send them to the markets, the markets are far 

 away. And so the small grower is at at great disadvan- 

 tage. The man that has not a large capital with which to 

 do things on a big scale and send his product a long dis- 

 tance, has no chance of success unless he takes a great 

 many years to build up on a solid basis the business on 

 which he has entered. 



On the whole, I feel that coming back to Connecticut 

 I see that which satisfies me personally along the line of 

 climate, along the line of the prospects of agriculture and 

 fruit growing, for I am not only interested for myself, but 

 for my three boys. 



Now I want to say just a word about that climatic 

 side of life. Many of you perhaps have read the glowing 

 circulars that are sent out from those northwest states, 

 and you have wondered if it could all be true, and if half 

 of it were true. I want to say there are a lot of things that 

 are not put into those circulars, those fleas of which we had 

 mention, are innumerable. I used to think out there it 

 was something like the tale that goes about Daniel in the 

 lion's den, and the King came over and leaned against the 

 cage and said; "Daniel, do the lions bite?" And Daniel 

 said: "No, but the fleas are terrible." (Laughter). This 

 is something they don't tell in the prospectusses they send 

 out, they don't tell you about the hunger that the easterner 

 has after he has been there about two years, a hunger for 

 something, he can't tell you what it is, but he feels a cer- 

 tain vague unrest, he feels as though life were not perfectly 

 full of satisfaction, there is something missing, and he 

 longs for that which he cannot understand until suddenly 

 ht realizes that he is hungry for the good old New Eng- 

 land climate. (Applause). Don't you be beguiled by the 

 statements of men from southern California. 



If I were to try to say anything in favor of the New 

 England climate, I want to say that I have lived in New 

 England, I have lived in the Middle West, and I have lived on 



