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conducting this publicity campaign. It seems to me that 

 the reason for that arises from the fact that in the western 

 part of the United States, — and I do not know whether 

 anyone here noticed a letter which was printed a few weeks 

 ago summing up in the main the situation in the west, par- 

 ticularly Wisconsin. The author stated that agriculture 

 did not amount to anything because the agriculturist had 

 all that he could get. That is something, considering the 

 paper that made that statement, and seems to me an indi- 

 cation of misrepresenting the facts in the west. There is 

 no doubt but what agriculture in the east is on a higher 

 plane generally than agriculture in the west. AA^e hear- 

 about run-down New England farms. There are, un- 

 doubtedly, run-down New England farms because capital 

 has changed a great deal in the last fifty or one hundred 

 years, but I venture to say that on the whole the agricul- 

 tural conditions and agricultural status in the east is higher 

 than the average agricultural standing in the west. The 

 only thing, we do not hear so much about what the agricul- 

 turalists are doing is because they are very largely acting 

 as individuals and not as organizations, because they are 

 doing more co-operation farming than they are in the 

 east. Now the thing we have got to do is to get up and tell 

 the western people what agriculture amounts to in the east. 

 We are not fulfilling our duty to our own interests and to 

 the State of Connecticut unless we are willing to carry on 

 an active campaign against the misrepresentation which is 

 now going on in the west against eastern agriculture and 

 especially eastern fruit, culture. It seems to me that what 

 we have got to do is to practically get up a good loud 

 "holler" in favor of eastern conditions, and the Publicity 

 Committee would be very glad to hear from anybody as 

 to any suggestions which can be made along that line. 



President Gold: You have heard the report of the 

 Publicity Committee. Doubtless you have examined the 

 leaflet which has been distributed bv Mr. Hale. If there is- 



