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I want to give you a little idea of what that show meant as a 

 direct object lesson. I have cited some of the different incen- 

 tives that may come to us in other lines, but I want to call your 

 attention to some few figures that I have here. I have been 

 asked the question how Maine stood in the New England Fruit 

 Show. I will give you the figures. In one room, in the division 

 called "G,", where the plate varieties were exhibited from all 

 over New England, there were about one thousand plates of 

 apples on the table — straight apples — and about five hundred 

 more of unnamed varieties of apples, and grapes, pears, peaches, 

 etc. How did Maine stand? Massachusetts was on her own 

 fighting ground. Her exhibit came from her pomological men, 

 and I am sorry to say Maine's did not except in a few cases. 

 Of the premiums offered, three hundred dollars on those plates 

 of apples was given by Worcester County. And the men who 

 entered were Worcester men, who had entered in competition 

 with each other for years, the old members of the society. 



Maine was handicapped as the Massachusetts fruit matured 

 and colored two weeks ahead of ours. And yet I want to give 

 you the result. 



In this one class Maine had 247 plates, New Hampshire 102, 

 Vermont 27, Massachusetts 290, Rhode Island 16, Connecticut 

 107. How about the ribbons? Maine, under all those difficul- 

 ties, received 43 ribbons to Massachusetts 7. How is that? I 

 was proud of Maine. If we could have entered in competition 

 with that Massachusetts fruit, this fruit shown on the tables to- 

 day of the leading varieties, that score would have been differ- 

 ent. 



Now you say, "Well, Maine took all the fourth premiums and 

 Massachusetts the first." Let us see. Maine out of that num- 

 ber took 16 blue ribbons, Massachusetts took 2, and so on 

 down the list. In the fourth premiums, Maine took three and 

 Massachusetts two. 



I will show you the hall in which were the state exhibits from 

 New England. There were ten from Maine and eleven from 

 Massachusetts. New Hampshire had 9, Vermont 2, Rhode 

 Island 5 and Connecticut 6. 



In regard to Grange exhibits, nine granges from Maine made 

 exhibits, three from New Hampshire, none from Vermont, only 

 one from Massachusetts, one from Rhode Island and one from 

 Connecticut. So Maine led all of the others put together. 



