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that agriculture might have been taught by a teacher who was 

 capable. After speaking in one of our farmers' meetings in 

 Connecticut to which were invited the teachers of the schools, 

 and after the talk was over, one lady came up to me and she 

 said, "I can teach agriculture/' I was very glad to apologize 

 for what I had said. I asked her where she had received her 

 training. Why, she said she had had a three months' course 

 in agriculture at the normal school. Well, to say nothing 

 about that, if agriculture could be taught by good teachers 

 who were competent and understood the subject, no doubt 

 many a boy would retain his love for the farm, who is now 

 anxious to get into the ministry or some other line of work. 

 Many of these people who get so enthusiastic when they see 

 these beautiful apples, get the farm fever, but they have 

 another kind of fever after a while. Since the fruit show in 

 Boston I have received some letters from people all over the 

 eastern part of the United States, asking where they could 

 buy fruit farms in Connecticut. I know of one man from 

 New Jersey who is coming into this state through the assist- 

 ance of a member of the State Board. He has bought a farm. 

 He has been engaged with the Y. M. C. A. I hope that in 

 his work with the Y. M. C. A. he has secured a large amount 

 of patience, faith and hope, because he will need it all before 

 he gets through with that proposition. A lot of these fellows 

 are going to be like the man who got hold of one of the bul- 

 letins. This was a man who happened to receive a bulletin, 

 and when he received it he opened it to see what was inside of 

 the envelope. He found there a bulletin with reference to 

 orchard management, and was delighted with the illustra- 

 tions and what he read stating just how to prune old apple 

 trees in order to get apples such as Mr. Drew told you about 

 to-day. He commenced cutting off the limbs. He had the 

 picture in his hand, and was looking at the tree when a friend 

 come to him and asked what the matter was. He said, "I 

 can't find that dern limb anywhere on this tree." (Laughter). 

 Now that illustrates it. They are going to be up against it. 



