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relations which will swell the volume of farm products, which 

 will bring fair returns to the producer, which will lift some of 

 the burdens from the man upon the farm, which will make 

 aggressive and positive our agricultural interest, which will 

 surely build up the vast resources of Maine. By thus working 

 together, believing in Maine and laboring for its advancement, 

 we shall find in the years, that, on the hillsides and up and down 

 the valleys of the Pine Tree State, God has showered his rich- 

 est blessings and made possible the largest, fullest, truest Hfe 

 vouchsafed to any people. This is indeed a goodly heritage and 

 it is for us to enrich in every way possible. If we believe in 

 Maine let us prove faith by honest service. 



ADDRESS. 

 Hon. Wm. T. Haines, Waterville, Maine. 



Ladies and Gentlemen: 



I see by your program that I am down for an address upon 

 chis occasion. I feel that there is nothing that I could say that 

 would be as eloquent in the cause of pomology in Maine as 

 the splendid fruit display which you have on exhibition in this 

 hall. 



I am, as you know, always interested in the Alaine farm, and 

 I am particularly interested at the present time in the Maine 

 orchard. I wish all those who live upon the Maine farms and 

 have orchards could be here to witness the splendid exhibit 

 which is the result of modern methods and the splendid care, 

 in the line of orcharding, which some of our Maine farmers 

 have been giving of late to this subject. There is nothing like 

 the object lesson to teach the people, and especially the lesson 

 in agriculture and horticulture. You are here for the benefit 

 of this object lesson. Those who are absent do not benefit by 

 it except as they hear of it through others, but I feel that its 

 influences must of a necessity be very large throughout the 

 State, and that the work which you are doing as a society will 

 constantly exert an influence for the better understanding of the 

 best methods of fruit growing in our State. 



