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men of the state, among them a millionaire and other fellows 

 that know how to do it. I will not dwell upon that, because 

 I know you have already heard a great deal about that re- 

 markable fruit show. 



Now you know that Massachusetts is called sometimes 

 the "greenhouse state." We raise a great variety of flowers 

 and vegetables, and all of those things. A great many cu- 

 cumbers. I remember a story about a boy going down the 

 street. You know that cucumbers are not always really good 

 for you, especially if you eat too heartily of them. The boy 

 had been eating cucumbers, and he was singing as he went 

 along the street, "Nearer My God to Thee." (Laughter). 



I want to assure you, ladies and gentlemen, that the fruit 

 interests of New England were never any better taken care 

 of than they are now. The recent show in Boston was 

 of great help to us, and to the growers all through New Eng- 

 land. We hear it everywhere we go. We hear it here as 

 well as we did at the New England Fruit Show itself. It 

 was an object lesson to our farmers all through New Eng- 

 land to see what the orchards were doing. I do not think 

 that the orchardists themselves realized that they were raising 

 such good looking fruit, some of it a great deal better than 

 they suspected. Such shows as that which we had at Bos- 

 ton are of immense help to the growers all through this sec- 

 tion. There are some problems in front of us, but I ought 

 not to take your time to go into that now. We have got to 

 conquer our insect pests, and especially the San Jose scale. 

 We have one difficulty in Massachusetts which possibly you 

 do not have in Connecticut. In Massachusetts we have the 

 deer. I assume you have some in Connecticut besides those 

 who are here. (Laughter). The deer in Massachusetts eat 

 up our young trees, and have become quite troublesome to 

 the farmers in some sections of the state. They have been 

 protected by law for quite a good many years, and have be- 

 come quite numerous. This year there is going to be an ef- 

 fort made to have the law taken off so that the deer can be 



