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they have raised some Ben Davis' but we never eat them. 

 We send them to the other fellow. (Laughter). 



Now we have started a campaign for better fruit, I 

 think Massachusetts feels a little jealous to think that Maine 

 got the offer by James Gregory for the two hundred dollar 

 prize that is coming to us every five years as long as we live. 

 I am sorry for the rest of you, I am proud because I am a 

 Maine-iac. 



Now I am just glad and tickled to death to be here, and 

 I want your President to send me an invitation every year. 

 When your President sent me the invitation this year, it did 

 not take me long to sit down and dictate a note to him that I 

 would be here. I have come to stay and see the thing 

 through. It gives me great pleasure to be here to-night and 

 look into your faces. We have lots of deer in Maine, but you 

 have got the whole bunch, and better ones, too, down here. 

 (Applause). 



The Toastmaster : We have with us a representative 

 of the agricultural press. When I read some of his editorials 

 I am reminded of the story of a dog. His owner said that 

 "he wasn't very much of a dog but he did worry cats awful." 

 When some one tackles our friend of the press for an argu- 

 ment with him, excuse me, but I always feel worried for that 

 man. I am also reminded of the story of a man up here in 

 Barkhamstead who had a cow that he was going to take 

 from the barnyard. He had a rope around her horns, and 

 was trying to drive her. As he got her out of the yard, in 

 some way the man got mixed up with the rope and the cow 

 proceeded to drag him through the sand and gravel for some 

 distance. His wife saw him and she said, "You ought to 

 know better than to get mixed up with that cow in that way." 

 "Well," he said, "I see I have made a mistake. (Laughter). 

 I think that is the way with some who have been mixed up 

 with our friend, and we want to hear now from Mr. Colling- 

 wood of the Rural New Yorker. 



