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are making a great deal of talk about the San Jose scale. 

 Do not be frightened. The codling moth is a hundred times 

 worse and has done more damage to the agricultural indus- 

 try of New England, and yet you simply let it go, because 

 in spite of it you can get some good apples, while the San 

 Jose scale will soon kill your trees if you do not check it, 

 so we are forced to spray and kill the scale, and good will 

 come of it, for while fighting it we are getting acquainted 

 with our trees and learning their wants. 



I want to give you a suggestion for the future : guard 

 your trolley legislation in this State. Be sure to be able 

 to utilize everything you can along trolley lines for agri- 

 culture. There are wonderful opportunities for broadening 

 out our agriculture and in handling our agricultural prod- 

 ucts. The other day I was riding on an electric car and we 

 went by a certain house, and the motorman rang his bell 

 and the conductor held up three fingers. I knew there 

 must be a pretty girl in that house, — any good girl is 

 pretty, — I wish the men could match them. I wondered 

 what those three fingers meant. When the car came back 

 a little bundle was brought out from that house. This 

 man's run was right in the middle of the day, and he had 

 acted as an agent for his neighbors. This family where we 

 stopped were producing butter and eggs and chickens. 

 This time he wanted three broilers, and the girl knew what 

 he meant and she had them ready when the car came back. 

 It gave me a hint of the distribution of farm products in 

 that way. You are building trolley lines all over the State. 

 Are you getting the privilege of transporting freight? 



I have said practically what I had to say about the final 

 results of all this work, — of making home life what it 

 ought to be. There is an opportunity for the Massachusetts 

 farmer to get more out of life in its broadest and best sense 

 on the farm than anywhere else. To do this it needs money 

 and capital that must be gotten out of the farm with the 

 best of business methods and a love of the business. By 

 adjusting ourselves to new conditions we may find great 

 opportunities on the farm in New England. We have the 

 best markets anywhere on the globe. Go anywhere in 

 America and find a man who is producing a high-grade 



