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product, and you will find that he expects to send a large 

 proportion of it to the north-eastern portion of the United 

 States. The soil of New England in its various grades and 

 qualities has the possibilities of a very wide range of prod- 

 uct. Adjust yourself to the conditions, somewhat to your 

 farm, somewhat to your market, largely to the cultivation 

 of what you believe in, and put your whole heart and soul 

 into your work, and there is a possibility, it seems to me, 

 of great results. 



I was particularly interested in an article in the " New 

 England Farmer " last week, giving an account of what our 

 friend Cheever got out of a half-acre of land. He supplied 

 his own table bounteously throughout the season, and I 

 think he sold $125 or $130 worth off from that half-acre. 

 He told of sitting down to many a meal almost entirely 

 made up from the products of that little farm. What must 

 he think of those who have tens and hundreds of acres of 

 land, and do not have the wonderful variety he was having 

 off his half-acre? There are many farmers who do not 

 know the taste of certain varieties of vegetables. You have 

 them here in this audience. If you take an acre and devote 

 it to a great variety of fruit and vegetables, there is a busi- 

 ness prospect in it and a home market in it ; produce on it 

 everything your family can enjoy, and you will find a busi- 

 ness profit there that you never dreamed of before. 



The Chairman. "We shall be glad to hear from any on 

 this subject. Will President Goodell of the college ad- 

 dress us ? 



President Goodell. We have heard of different kinds 

 of business here to-day. We have to do here at the college 

 a great deal of work that may seem to you is not business, 

 and yet it is business in a certain way. We pour out money 

 for experiments that you farmers cannot undertake, but it 

 is all for your benefit; and you are supporting us, — you 

 are taxing yourselves to support us to do this work. It is 

 business for you, not for the college. It is not paying the 

 college, but it is business for you. You put in costly lab- 

 oratories, all kinds of apparatus ; and, while it is not every 

 man that goes out from the college that makes the right use 



