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much money they have, they do not enjoy losing it for any 

 great number of years. 



I have already taken too much time, Mr. Chairman, but 

 there is one thing, or one thought that I want to leave with 

 you ; and that is, see to it that the schools in these country 

 districts are improved. I believe that is a great public neces- 

 sity. Make the country attractive enough to keep these boys 

 on the farm, as they ought to be kept, see to it that they can 

 get a good education in the country. Provide a good place 

 for the hired man and his family to live in, and to take his 

 children to, and where they can be educated. 



I thank you. (Applause). 



President Gold: I have a letter which I would like to 

 read from my friend, Mr. R. M. Bowen, a gentleman who is 

 vice-president for Rhode Island of the New England Fruit 

 Show. He says that he is on jury duty, or otherwise he 

 would have been here to-night. He wishes me to extend his 

 greeting to the Society, and to say that he believes you are 

 doing a great work, one that will be fully appreciated, not 

 only by the fruit growers in Connecticut, but all over New 

 England, and by the sellers and users of fruit generally. In 

 his letter he goes on to say : 



"If one wants a good illustration for the demand for 

 good fruit, and especially apples, I think he only needs to 

 go into the stores and see good oranges selling for twenty-five 

 and thirty cents per dozen, and handsome apples at from fifty 

 cents to one dollar per dozen. Then let him take into con- 

 sideration the fact that these apples are in no way equal to 

 our New England apples as to flavor, and that person must 

 be short-sighted who cannot see the demand for just such 

 fruit as the Connecticut Pomological Society is trying to in- 

 duce people to raise. I have heard the remark made that so 

 many are going into this business that it could not prove a 

 success for all, but let them consider how many go into this 

 that are not adapted to it, and who do not make a success of 

 it. and let them also consider that the. population in the cities 



