98 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



home to raise the apples and come here and take your busi- 

 ness away from you or take your neighbor's business. 



Really, whatever success comes in agriculture depends 

 more on the man and woman who have charge of it than on 

 anything else. The man or the woman, the boy or the girl, 

 who believes thoroughly in the possibilities of New England 

 agriculture, who knows that he can get as much or more 

 from that than from anything else on earth, and who feels 

 that he can get a living there, — that is the man to get at 

 the business side of agriculture, and he is getting there all 

 the time. The man or the woman must have, it seems to 

 me, a thorough love for agriculture to become very success- 

 ful. When Brother Jordan was talking yesterday about the 

 young men entering into business where they could make 

 more money than in agriculture, I was going to say, " Take 

 them away. If they are going where they will get the most 

 money, agriculture does not want them, no matter how much 

 money you spend on them in college." If they go into 

 some other calling because they love it, because they believe 

 they can develop that branch of work to its highest possi- 

 bilities, then I say to them, " God speed ! go anywhere you 

 will." Do that in life out of which you can get the most 

 enjoyment, that in which you believe most thoroughly, and 

 then you will succeed. The man who has a love for agricult- 

 ure, for the brown soil, for the animals that should be fed 

 thereon, that loves plants and bushes and vines and loves to 

 see them grow, all regardless of finances, will be sure to get 

 the very greatest financial reward. Show me a man thor- 

 oughly in love with agriculture, thoroughly in touch with 

 nature, hand in hand with her, and I will show you a suc- 

 cessful farmer every time. 



I have in mind two farmers situated on the same farm, — 

 not at the same time. One was an exceedingly hard-working 

 man, and very "close-fisted." He had no love for the farm 

 and no love for the crops on it. He would turn from one 

 crop to another if he could get more profit by so doing. He 

 was adjusting himself to financial returns only. I believe 

 that is right to a certain extent, but his whole aim was to 

 get money out of the farm, and if it was more convenient 

 for him to build an ice house on the lawn beside his house, 



