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can and will talk on that subject and will go to Connecticut 

 well prepared to act in accordance with the rest of New England 

 on the subject. It is a subject that certainly is of very great 

 importance to fruit growers. 



Mr. Kinney accepted the invitation in behalf of his society. 



OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. 

 By Prof. Fred W. Card of Pennsylvania. 



I thought I would talk tonight a little about the opportunities 

 for young people. This is a day of opportunities. We see 

 them in all lines of work. We see men who have reached high 

 attainments, have begun in low places and worked their way up. 

 The other day all the wheels of one of the great railway systems 

 in the West stopped ; not a wheel turned for five minutes in 

 honor of the man who had been its president, the man who 

 begun at the very bottom of the ladder, who climbed his way 

 step by step to the highest position in that railroad. 



Sometimes we think perhaps that those chances for growth, 

 for progress have gone by largely, that all those opportunities 

 have been utilized, have been taken, and that at the present time 

 the young man does not have the chance which he had before. 

 But I think this is a mistaken notion, that the opportunities are 

 still with us if we have but eyes to see them, whether it be in 

 the lines of business, professional, mechanical, or any calling 

 whatsoever. 



But I am concerned chiefly, as we all are perhaps, most of us 

 at least here tonight, with the opportunities offered in agricul- 

 ture, because we are here, a meeting of agriculturists — one 

 phase, I believe the best phase of agriculture, but many of my 

 friends would differ with me as to that. Now what are the 

 opportunities which agriculture offers to the young men or the 

 young women — I wish there were more of them here tonight. 



In the first place there are opportunities for bright, intelligent 

 men as teachers and experimenters. Our agricultural colleges, 

 our experiment stations, are constantly calling for more and 

 more men. Men are dropping out to take up other callings, 

 and new men are needed. Those institutions are growing. I 



