52 AGRICULTURE OF MAINE 



winding street and a pleasant .stream back of it; altogether a 

 fine, clean, wholesome neighborhood to live in. And this view 

 is taken from the old factory of Niiremberg. There is the 

 bridge. This canal which runs here turns the wheels of indus- 

 try, as we say. You may think that factories necessarily mean 

 a lot of waste and rubbish and squalor and dirt, but they don't 

 in any country which is cleaned up and cleaned up to stay. 

 This is a water front view also, where a little stream runs 

 through a pleasant English village. It also used to be a sewer, 

 but it has been cleaned up and is now as nice and attractive as 

 any place you could imagine. 



This view shows some of the fruit growing and farming in- 

 terests in Central Germany, near Berlin. This is a cherry 

 orchard at blossoming time. This shows the terraced banks on 

 the hills upon which the vineyards grow, terraced up with stone 

 walls to hold in a little patch of land and then the vines are 

 grown there. The fields of Germany and Central Europe are 

 always picturesque and interesting. I have referred before to 

 the wide recognition of woman's rights in the old country, for 

 one finds them there always in the harvest fields, early and late, 

 working with the men, even doing more work than the men, 

 perhaps, because they are more industrious. 



Here we have the fields of northern Germany on the flat low 

 land at the harvest time, and I would like to have you notice 

 what a splendid heavy growth of grain there is. I have one or 

 two other pictures which show that growth of grain. Look, for 

 instance, at this on the line next to Denmark. There is a crop 

 of rye that a man might be proud of. Notice how the land 

 is farmed up to the very eaves of the building. There is a place 

 where people have been farming for five hundred years and 

 the land growing richer all the time. That is agriculture on a 

 permanent basis, and agriculture which is sure of itself and 

 understands what it is doing. And here we see agriculture 

 crowding up not merely to the eaves of the houses but crowd- 

 ing up to the foot of the mountains. Here are the snows in the 

 upper mountains, and below them are the fields, some of them 

 in grain and further back in forests, but all of them busy, all 

 of them doing something, all of them bringing in a revenue. 

 Notice here as we get near to the mountain we have those fine 

 forest lands running up there. That is all public forest, all 

 carefully managed, all bringing in a good solid revenue. They 



