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of the ice. He also said that it was easy to see how it had 

 gotten into the honey, that it was through the comb. But 

 how it could have gotten into the apple pie he could not un- 

 derstand, as the apples were Bald-wins. (Laughter). 



Now these organizations, to my mind, mean everything 

 to the farmers of these New England states. These differ- ' 

 ent organizations ought to cooperate with one another. I 

 suppose you fruit men here would say that my product was 

 a by-product. I appreciate that, for many of you keep a 

 few cows to give you fertilizer to properly care for your or- 

 chards. An allusion has been made here to the benefits that 

 this New England Fruit Show has been to New England 

 agriculture. There is no question about that, but it will also 

 encourage many to go into fruit culture that ought not to go 

 into it. Now with myself, I would not undertake to raise 

 fruit to any considerable extent. I have over two hundred 

 head of horned stock on my farm, and I do not own a feath- 

 er. I buy my eggs. Now why? I will tell you. I love a 

 horse, and I love a cow. There never was a time in my life 

 when I would not go further to see a good dairy, or a good . 

 horse farm than anything on earth. I like fruit, but I do 

 not love it well enough to get into the game in a way that 

 many a man does. That is just as true of poultry, and it 

 is just as true of any other line of farming. I do not regard 

 myself as being fitted to take up those other lines. You 

 must love them well enough to study into them, and thus 

 make them a success. Many a man will be encouraged to 

 go into fruit culture, and the financial interest will be en- 

 couraged in that direction, but, to my mind, the man with 

 money can do much better work by backing up, or using it 

 in loaning it to the good fruit man in his community than by 

 undertaking to secure some one to raise and cultivate an or- 

 chard of his own. While there may be some satisfaction in 

 that, it will be a pretty expensive piece of business in the 

 end. and my experience is that business men, no matter how 



