l82 STATE POMOIvOGICAL SOCIETY. 



I think there is going to be an enormous development in the 

 immediate future in apple raising. We know we have a good 

 thing and we want everybody else to know it; and we want 

 everybody else to know it because the Society evidently thinks, 

 and its members who have spoken evidently think it is going to 

 be a good thing for these other people. We want other men to 

 share the advantages which we have had. We have made a dis- 

 covery, and the Society is throwing that discovery open to the 

 world and saying to everybody here in Maine, "Now here is a 

 good thing, you better come in to it yourself. We are doing 

 well. We want more men to share those advantages, and you 

 better come in and see if you won't do well at it yourself." 



Then it is going to be a great thing for the young men of 

 Maine. The young men of Maine are going to see, as a great' 

 many of them have already come to see, that there isn't any 

 better chance for a young man than to go into fruit raising, 

 provided he is willing to work hard and faithfully. Lots of 

 them are going to find it better to stay east on these Maine farms 

 and go into profitable and attractive business. They are going 

 to find it better than to go off to the big cities, and if they suc- 

 ceed as well as the majority of them, pass a weary life shut up 

 in a little bit of a hall bedroom in a dingy boarding house on a 

 noisy side street, with hardly a glance at the sky and only a 

 breath of pure air, and just one unending routine day after day, 

 week after week, month after month, of some uninteresting 

 routine business. 



B. F. W. Thorpe of Augusta, Editor of Maine Farmer. 

 It has been a more than pleasure to listen to the remarks 

 already given by those who are much more able to give good 

 things than the speaker. Especially have I been pleased to hear 

 the good words expressed from those who have come to us from 

 out of the State. I have been thinking since the President called 

 for these remarks from me that perhaps I could do no better 

 than for a moment to speak of something that has interested 

 me much within the past two years, and more especially brought 

 to my mind during the past few days. A lawyer in Illinois, 

 who had a brilliant future before him, was told that within a 

 very few years his sands of life would cease to flow unless he 



