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proud of such a successful exhibition as is spread in the hall 

 below, and we feel that thanks are due from us to the Pomo- 

 logical Society, rather than from them to us for what we have 

 done for them. We feel that we have only done our duty, and 

 Lakeside Grange always tries to do its duty. 



I once heard one of our leading citizens say, "I have been in 

 almost every State and I have investigated into the conditions 

 in the various states and I have come back to the State of Maine. 

 I have made up my mind that the State of Maine is the very best 

 state in the Union. I have made up my mind that the County 

 of Cumberland is the very best county in the State of Maine ; 

 and I have made up my mind that the town of Harrison is the 

 best town in the County of Cumberland.'' Well, it is very nat- 

 ural that the town of Harrison should like such sentiments as 

 that, and it is very natural we should like to have our visitors 

 come here and go away feeling that they have been well treated. 



Prof. Alfred G. Gulley, Storrs, Conn. : It has been my 

 privilege to attend meetings of this sort for a number of years, 

 and I have never attended a meeting of fruit-growers or any 

 combination of the same that I did not have a good time. Your 

 welcome began way back here twenty or thirty miles. I have 

 traveled over many different railroads but today is the first time 

 I ever traveled on a steam train where they gave you individual 

 seats without charging you a dollar apiece. And the rest of the 

 reception since I have been here has certainly been just as good 

 — I might say better. 



But our business is a splendid one and there is more in it 

 than the money. That fruit grower who only sees money in 

 fruit growing has not got the best end of it by a long ways. 

 There is fun in it. I can see as much fun, and get as much 

 fun and profit and enjoyment out of handling a tree, as any 

 m.an can out of anything else, or as any woman ever did out of 

 a poodle dog. 



They are pets to me in my work. Our friend Breed says if 

 he were thirty years younger he would plant some apple trees. 

 Why, if you will go with me into Massachusetts, you may see 

 an old man — late President of the State Horticultural Society 

 and also of the Worcester Society — an old man today past 

 ninety years old — and less than three years ago I heard him 

 saying he was going to plant another apple orchard. Do you 



