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bear fruit. If these methods are thoroughly practised, 

 there is no way in which suitable soil can be employed that 

 will give more satisfactory returns than in apple culture. 



The income from land devoted to apple growing on these 

 principles is practically unknown, and money so invested 

 has a certainty of return in per cent of interest that can 

 only be measured by the skill, the intelligence and the ap- 

 plication of good business methods that may back it. 



There is no more promising field for young men to enter 

 than the developing of New England soil for the culture of 

 apples of fine quality. I can say with much satisfaction 

 that one of the most promising students in the new School 

 of Practical Agriculture and Horticulture, recently estab- 

 lished at Briarcliff Manor, N. Y. , is one of } r our Boston 

 sons, of typical New England stock, endowed with energy, 

 intelligence and determination to succeed in his eflbrts to 

 enter upon the neAV agriculture for New England. Other 

 students taking this course in agriculture are contemplating 

 purchasing land at the east, because of the excellent mar- 

 kets that are so near, and the low prices for which land can 

 be bought. In addition to this young man who is preparing 

 in this most thorough manner to enter this higher field of 

 agricultural work and life, there is an instance of one of your 

 most prominent and successful business men, a leading man- 

 ufacturer of Massachusetts, taking up land for the purpose 

 of reviving and reinstating agriculture in New England 

 upon the better lines of development that arc certain to 

 bring better results to those who will adopt the advanced 

 methods that are called for to meet present conditions. I 

 look upon this as a most significant movement on the part 

 of one of your most prominent men, a gentleman who has 

 reached the three score and ten period, to take up agri- 

 culture with all of the interest and energy of a man of fifty, 

 and bring to it the careful, thorough business methods that 

 he has brought to manufacturing for forty years. He has 

 taken up land and is putting out apple orchards, and pro- 

 poses to follow closely the methods laid down in this dis- 

 cussion as an object lesson of value to the young men of 

 the east, and to those who will bring to this work the same 



