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noses steel pointed to get them down. About four acres of it 

 was nice land, and he had that plowed, planted, cultiva*;ed and 

 sprayed and dug by an Aroostook man that thoroughly under- 

 stood his business — and there wasn't a weed in it, it was clean — 

 and from that four acres he told me that he had harvested and 

 had in his cellar 1,174 bushels of potatoes, which at fifty cents a 

 bushel paid for all his work, fertilizer and land the first year. 

 Why do we farmers sit around and grumble and say we can't 

 do anything farming? It is because they don't do anything and 

 won't do anything. Any energetic live man can do something. 

 A short time ago a man at my house from Washington state said 

 he had just bought fifty acres of land. He said : "I am going to 

 set every single acre out to trees, and cultivate it and do nothing 

 else but take care of it, and that is for my bank account in my 

 old age." What did Dr. Twitchell do when he thought he was 

 failing up in the office down at Augusta? — went and bought a 

 plat of land with an orchard. "WJiat are you going to do with 

 that?" "For a bank account in my old age. It will give me an 

 income superior to any other investment that I can make." 



Now why should we say that anything don't pay? It is 

 because we don't drive our business as we ought to ; we don't 

 work it up ; we don't do what we might ; we are slack ; we are 

 not energetic enough. Look at the resolutions passed here. 

 What will they do with them? They will drop them, crowd 

 ever3'thing onto a few men without a dollar to do it with. I say 

 we should get together as orchardists all over the State of ]Maine 

 and see if we cannot bring up the standard of our fruit. And 

 we can if we are a mind to. 



