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doing a good business. He was making them pay. A few 

 weeks after I saw him upon the fair grounds and he had entered 

 a horse in one of the races, and in talking with him before some 

 of the otticers, I said, "You better put the horse to the plow 

 instead of the sulky, burn up the boots and attend to your hens 

 and fruit trees," and left him. On that same fair ground a few 

 months ago — this fall — he came to me as I stood there with some 

 others and says : "Twitchell, I have got that trotting horse now 

 and I didn't stave up the sulky or burn up the boots, they are up 

 in the barn." "Well," I said, "he is not in the races this year?" 

 He said "No, but the hens are there under those fruit trees, and 

 I want to tell you that since you visited that place six years ago,, 

 out of those hens and the fruit trees" — for he doesn't do much 

 farming, couldn't do much there among the rocks — "I have sup- 

 ported m}- family and have bought $5,000 of stock in the Fron- 

 tier National Bank of Eastport." That is a pretty good story 

 to tell. He spoke to me in the presence of a number of his 

 neighbors and after he had gone one of them said : "He told you 

 the truth. We don't doubt the story that he told. The results 

 are simply marvelous, the effect of the working of the hens and 

 the fertilization by the hens upon those trees and the quality of 

 the fruit." 



