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ing business should enable them to command these markets 

 because they are able to lay down fresh fruit and fresh vege- 

 tables, which have a much better flavor and are in much better 

 condition than those shipped from the south. I have not got 

 a bottle of that medicine that our good friend from Massachu- 

 setts mentioned yesterday that 1 can uncork and make a 

 specific for all ills. I shall not attempt it from the fact that 

 it would be impossible for every man who may enter the busi- 

 ness of vegetable or fruit growing to make a success. Now 

 the man in this business is, perhaps, as much a factor as any 

 other one thing that enters into it. There is not a man be- 

 fore me, I expect, but what in his present memory has in 

 mind men who have made farming a business, and who have 

 made it a business success, and that, too, right alongside of 

 the farmer who has made this success, is another man on 

 equally as good, if not better soil, but who, nevertheless, has 

 made a miserable failure. Xow then we can see that it is a 

 profession, that it is a business in which the man himself is 

 a very great factor towards success. It is simply good man- 

 agement on the part of the man. 1 have in mind at the 

 present time, with all due consideration and due respect to 

 the people of whom I shall speak, — a Jewish farmer who 

 bought a farm near me in Michigan. He was a man who had 

 considerable money to begin with. He bought one of the 

 best farms in the locality. A mile and a half away another 

 Jew bought, at about the same time, what was called in the 

 vicinity one of the poorest farms around there. This Jew 

 that bought the land in the good locality made a failure, and 

 the other man that went over in the other locality made as 

 great a success of farming as any man in his locality. 

 It was the man. A man to be successful must know first what 

 the market he supplies demands. He must know how those 

 particular products should go into that market, in what form. 

 He should know the adaptability of varieties to different 

 soils. He should be a man willing to work, not necessarily 

 loner hours, vet I must say to von here that we do not have 



