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Rural New-Yorker.' I know we shall all enjoy listening to 

 him in addition to our other speakers. 1 would like to call 

 upon him now." 



Mr. Collingwood: "Mr. President: I think about the 

 meanest thing a man can do is to steal another man's talk. 

 I do not want to do that because I know that your program 

 is fully made out. Brother Hale and these other people are 

 just aching to get all the time they can to talk, and I am not 

 going to steal any man's time, and I am going to cut myself 

 off as soon as I can. I don't know much about the apple - 

 growing business, and perhaps not so much as the newspapers 

 pretend sometimes, but I do know this; that a meeting of 

 this kind is not unlike the making up of a paper. The 

 arrangement of the speaking and the general make-up is not 

 unlike a good newspaper. The ideal newspaper has not been 

 printed. If I could get up that I should feel just about right, 

 and I will tell you how I would do it. I would hire the very 

 best men I could in the country to discuss those things that 

 were of living interest in a practical way. I would give 99 

 per cent of that paper up to those men, and then I would 

 take the remaining i per cent, and I would try and get hold 

 of a man who knew nothing about it, and I would have that 

 man write the editorial page. Why? Because it is given to 

 some men to dig facts out of the soil, and out of the great 

 mines of information, and it is given to other men to rub those 

 facts in, and the man, generally, who digs the facts out is not 

 the best man to rub them in. Therefore, I say that while I 

 am not given to digging these facts relative to horticulture 

 out perhaps I can rub them in a little. I went up in Maine 

 awhile ago and attended the Pomological Society. 1 expected 

 to find a lot of bears roaming around the state, but I found 

 one of the best shows I ever saw. Their display of apples was 

 one of the finest I ever saw. I got to talking with a man 

 from one of their back counties about the exhibit of apples, 

 and he said this: ' My friend, wherever you find farmers that 

 raise a high-grade class of apples there you will find pros- 

 perity.' He says, 'I will prove that to you by telling you 

 what happened in our town. We have in our town a poor 



