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posed of the president of the State University, the maste'- of 

 the State Grange and two or three other gentlemen, represent- 

 ing large interests, educational and industrial, are going to com- 

 mence the investigation of that subject. And I believe -we can 

 count upon every person here, who is engaged agriculturally or 

 industrially, when he fully understands the scope of it, to sup- 

 port any movement that may be made for the establishment of 

 technical instruction in your own communities for the educa- 

 tion in practical lines which will make the young man and young 

 woman work more effectively in their life work. May we not 

 count upon you, and feel sure that we can? 



If Denmark, half the size of the State of Maine, has more 

 than a hundred agricultural schools, and if Belgium, less than 

 half the size of the State of Maine, can support, with its agricul- 

 ture and its industry, six millions of people, and support them 

 well and happily, what may not be done in our own state, with 

 its wonderful facilities, not only in manufacturing of all kinds, 

 through its water powers and its forests, but agriculturally? 

 There are enough resources liere in the State of Maine to sup- 

 port a population of five million people. 



Let us join together in the movement that is now beginning 

 for the education of the young people in the practical affairs of 

 life, so that they may have all the force behind them that has 

 accumulated from the experience of others in the past, plus the 

 technical training which will help them to bring about such re- 

 sults as you have seen illustrated this afternoon on the screen. 

 It is a proud thing for us, is it not, that that immense exiiibit 

 in Boston, which attracted more attention, I am told, than any 

 other exhibit there, was packed by University of Maine students. 

 Those students have had very little experience. Some of them, 

 I dare say, have hardly had a month's instruction in horticul- 

 tural work and in the packing of apples. And if those results 

 can be accomplished with such little instruction, how much more 

 can be done, not only for the few but for the whole state, by a 

 careful system of instruction. 



