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The President then called upon Mayor Beal, who spoke as 

 follows: 



MAYOR BEAL'S REMARKS. 

 Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: 



On behalf of the city of Bangor, the Eastern Maine State Fair 

 and the Fair community generally, I extend to the Maine State 

 Pomological Society a cordial welcome. 



The chairman has said there seems to be no better way for 

 the Maine State Pomological Society to spend the stipend than 

 to extend its influences throughout the State, and inasmuch as 

 we never have had them here before in this part of the State to 

 any extent, it seems to me that this was a proper time for them 

 to come east and join with us, assist us what they could. The 

 influence of the Maine State Pomological Society must be great, 

 must be of a great deal of good to the whole State, but it could 

 not be unless it took in nearly the whole State, extended 

 its branches out. And I hope the seed that has been sown here 

 at this time will take root and be fruitful to the extent that the 

 Maine State Pomological Society may feel that it is not only a 

 pleasure to them to come this way, but a duty that they owe the 

 citizens east of the Kennebec river. We never have, in this part 

 of the State, taken so much interest in pomology as we should, 

 but I hope this will wake us up, wake up the farming interests, 

 I have no doubt it will. They have a grand show down to the 

 grounds this year — much better than I anticipated was possible 

 — and the way they fiave conducted the affairs of the society 

 down there it seems to me must be fruitful of good, and I hope, 

 as I said before, that this will not be the last meeting by any 

 means that will be held by the Maine State Pomological Society, 

 but that it is only the beginning of a bright future for our farm- 

 ing community in this part of the State. 



I do think that there is no better way that the State can spend 

 a small amount of its money raised by taxation than by putting 

 it into the hands of this society. They do not put in enough. 

 They should put in more, that it may be used, and I am sure that 

 it is used, to the best advantages of everybody. And I hope the 

 legislature this winter will see to it that the Maine State Pomo- 

 logical Society has the assistance that it should have from the 

 whole State and the treasury of the State, and if there is any 



