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culture, and many a visitor has gone from this farm, not only 

 stocked with advice, but with plants and slips, when it was 

 known that the product was to come in direct competition with 

 his own. 



Going home from our annual gathering at Skowhegan, where 

 he had labored so untiringly for the success of the meeting, he 

 said, as he struck his hands together in that manner peculiar 

 when emphasizing a thought, '' Oh, if the farmers of Maine 

 would only wake up and take hold of these questions what a 

 revolution we could work ! "' 



" I wish I was a young man. How I would cover Hillside 

 Farm with gooseberries, plums and currants and make things 

 hum ! " 



Here was the spirit of the man, and to help quicken desire and 

 love for the fruits of the garden and field was to him always a 

 pleasure and a source of satisfaction. 



Such men are helpers. Such men are missed. Such men are 

 the builders whose work is seen long after they have rested. 



Could he speak today he would ask no resolution of recogni- 

 tion of service performed, but would he not say to you and me : 

 " What are you doing today to make this fruit gathering better, 

 more complete and helpful than last year's ? How are you shap- 

 ing things to accomplish most for the trees, shrubs and vines, 

 in whose companionship I have labored for years and which have 

 never failed to give me good returns ? " 



In that pleasant home on the hillside, overlooking the lake and 

 village, as well as orchard and shrubs, I have turned many 

 times when worn with the cares of business and suflfering from 

 the burden of disease, and always was the welcome earnest and 

 cordial, bringing rest and vigor to body and mind. Re?'' 'ng 

 there the intensity of this man's desire for better conditioxi^, 

 came inevitably to measure him, as you and I hope to be meas- 

 ured, from the best side, and to realize that in his death, the 

 village, town, county and State lost the active services of one 

 who sought to build up those substantial industries which would 

 endure and to stimulate love for those special lines of work to 

 which so many years of his life were devoted. 



May the mantle of his enthusiasm fall upon each and every 

 one of us and through renewed efforts may we labor for the 

 realization of his desire that every hillside shall bring forth a 



