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pies of honor, virtue and sobriety in the hearts and brains of 

 the coming generation. Not alone good fruit and a well estab- 

 lished reputation but better men and women must be the product 

 of these gatherings else the spirit of commercialism will bury 

 us under the crust of selfishness and greed. Looking to the 

 future for the growth of our orchards the increase of product 

 therein, the better price through improvement of the same and 

 the certainty of justice in the market we must also be directing 

 our gaze intently upon questions of civic righteousness that 

 when the fruits of the harvest are gathered we may enjoy them 

 in peace. Every agency set to the betterment of financial con- 

 ditions is called to direct its critical attention upon questions 

 of civic duties that the name of sentimentalism apparent every- 

 where which finds expression in indulgence, may give way to the 

 restraining influence of love and the building of self centered, 

 well poised characters. Shame be upon us if seeking so ear- 

 nestly for quality in our fruit we neglect to toil as patiently for 

 quality in life. 



To build ourselves into full, free manhood is the true mission 

 of all toil and he who conquers most may see most of what that 

 life embraces. Devoted to a study of agriculture and pomol- 

 ogy we must be conscious that there is imperative need of such 

 reorganization of systems and methods as will inspire in the 

 young the will to know more of natural things. The education 

 of the past has been to make men cultured, that of the future 

 must be to make them efficient. Efficiency is the cry every- 

 where coming up from every mill and factory, from every farm 

 and shop, and this can never be gained until the gray matter of 

 the brain has been trained to see, the heart to feel and know and 

 the hands to do. Machines can do much but back of these 

 there must be thinkers and they come only as they reach after 

 the knowledge of constructive work. The past has had to do 

 with the heads, the present and future must recognize the hands 

 and the hearts. Combinations of labor and capital, conditions 

 underlying manufacturing and the unduly fostered desire to 

 become a wage earner without training have closed the door to 

 all opportunity for learning a trade and so mastering an indus- 

 try. If we would build a self centered citizenship throughout 

 rural New England more attention must be given the steps lead- 

 ing thereto by those who recognize the value of industrial train- 



