106 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan. 



you can an animal. I would have our young men get into 

 those lines of work for which they are specially adapted, 

 and then they will find success. 



I have a letter here, and you will pardon me if I read it. 

 It is of interest to me because I have had something to do 

 with the matter. I found a young man in Maine engaged in 

 a general line of farm work, raising general crops. He 

 asked me if I thought he could succeed in small fruits. I 

 found, upon questioning him, that he had been studying the 

 small-fruit question, and was interested in it. I advised 

 him to get into that business a couple of years ago, and, if 

 you will pardon me, I would like to read a portion of his 

 letter, simply to show you what he has done. He had a 

 very good orchard, and by fencing he had turned his hogs 

 upon it, and enriched it materially. He writes me as fol- 

 lows : — 



"I suppose you would like to know how my fruits have 

 yielded this season. I can say if it had not been for my 

 fruit I should be about bankrupt, for my grain and beans 

 were almost a failure. My potatoes were fine, but I only 

 raised about forty bushels, so that is a very small item, 

 although desirable. My strawberry crop was in round num- 

 bers one hundred and twenty-five bushel crates, and brought 

 me five hundred dollars. Not a very great showing, but 

 fairly good results. The grubs got about one-quarter of 

 my setting of 1889, so I did not expect so large a crop on 

 that account. For blackberries I received one hundred dol- 

 lars. The dry weather at fruiting time pinched the crop 

 quite badly. To the present time I have received about four 

 hundred and twenty dollars for apples, with two hundred 

 and fifty dollars' worth in the cellar. So you see I have 

 had the pleasure of growing and handling the fruit, which to 

 me is a great attraction, and for the visible attraction ten 

 hundred and twenty dollars. Not a mean item for a hard 

 year, is it?" 



Now, there is a young man who is going to make a suc- 

 cess. He is twelve miles from market, and upon a light 

 soil, but he is just as surely going to make a success there 

 as that he lives, because he is engaged in a work now that 

 he loves. He does not like a horse. He is keeping one 



