STATS POMOLOGICAI, SOCIETY. IO9 



Columbus Hayford. The directors are composed of the direct- 

 ors sent by the different Pomonas at our meeting in Augusta 

 in September. We hope by State Grange time to have the thing 

 thoroughly digested so that we can ask certain men to act in this 

 capacity and that they will be efficient and satisfactory men. 



Now when we get it so that it will work in one town in Aroos- 

 took county, we will make it so that it will work in any other. 

 What will work in one place will work in another. After we have 

 solved the problem of the unit we have solved the problem of 

 the whole. Some people say to me that are interested in this, 

 that have listened to it and followed it along, "Well, what is the 

 first thing you are going to do ?" Well, I know definitely what 

 is the first thing we are going to do if you leave it to me. Of 

 course there are other people to be considered, but if you were 

 to leave it to me, I know definitely what I would do, just the 

 same as though I were a young man and had studied law and 

 was going out to practice law. What is the first thing you 

 would do in such a case as that? Why, I would go and hang 

 out my shingle and engage a room. That is the first thing I 

 would do. The next thing I would do, I would join the Masons 

 and the Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias, and I would 

 go round and I would try and convey the impression that I was 

 decent and respectable, and I would go to some business man 

 and say "If you have got some case that don't amount to much, 

 that your regular attorney can't attend to, I would be much 

 obliged to you if you should turn it over to me," and the old 

 fellow would look me over and say probably it will help the 

 fellow out some and I will do it, and he would give me some 

 little collecting to do ; and I would try and be efficient and win 

 his confidence, and in that case perhaps he would turn another 

 over to me and before I knew it I would get money enough to 

 pay my board. Now that is an essential thing. After I had 

 done that I would work along and by and by before I knew it 

 the old gentleman would be coming up to my office sometime 

 when his regular attorney would be out of town, and he would 

 have some important case on hand, and he would say "Can you 

 handle this?" • I would tell him I could, and if I couldn't handle 

 it myself I would go and get somebody to inform me. That is 

 what I would do if I were studying law. What would you do 



