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each other. They will make Mends, and each will be help- 

 ful to the other. In this way I believe we are going to 

 solve the problem very largely in the near future of success- 

 ful agriculture. By removing the orchards from the level 

 fields and placing them upon pasture land, cultivating them, 

 fertilizing them and treating them as they ought to be treated, 

 we can materially increase the revenue of the farm, and 

 escape the loss which has resulted in the past where we have 

 taken the best land for the orchard. Now, that, it seems to 

 me, is the line of work for you, gentlemen, in Massachusetts. 

 I do not believe that you can grow every variety of apple 

 upon these levels. I believe that there must be a study of 

 varieties with reference to location, — and it is a pretty broad 

 study. The more I think of it, the less I know about it ; 

 but I think, judging by the experience of men who have 

 followed the business of orcharding for years, that that is 

 one of the great problems to be wrought out. Each and 

 every man must be a law unto himself. 



Now, my friends, as you go home from this meeting, take 

 this thought with you, and see if you cannot encourage the 

 boys to take up some special line of work, that line to be 

 the one for which they are adapted and have a taste, whether 

 it be for orcharding, for sheep or swine or poultry or cattle, — 

 whatever it may be, let them take that up, and encourage 

 them and help them. If they have a taste for the growing of 

 fruit, help them to get a spraying apparatus, help them to a 

 knowledge of the use of these insecticides, help them to 

 secure a little better foundation for the stock they want to 

 raise, and bind them to the farm by showing them that there 

 is more to be realized there than in any other vocation. 

 Doing this, I believe that next year, or surely within a very 

 few years, the percentage of gray heads in the annual meet- 

 ing of the Board of Agriculture will be materially reduced. 



The Chairmax. The Weather Bureau have, expressed a 

 desire to make some different arrangements from those 

 which have existed in the past, with the view of especially 

 benefiting the farmers. They have a representative here this 

 •rnoon who desires about fifteen minutes of your time to 

 explain what they wish to do. I have the pleasure of intro- 

 ducing to you Mr. .1. Warren Smith of Cambridge. 



