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muscles. I read in one paper the other day of a minister being 

 called upon to go to preach to another society at a great advance 

 in salary, and the neighbors heard of it. The minister's boy 

 was playing with a neighbor's boy, and the neighbor's boy said 

 to him, 'Is your Pa going away? What's he going to do? Is 

 he going to accept that call to go to the other church? ' And 

 the little fellow says, ' 1 don't know what Pa is going to do. 

 He's praying over it, but I notice that Ma is packing up. Ma 

 says she is going to get that done.' That is what we have 

 got to do. It's all right to pray, but nevertheless, we must 

 begin and pack up all along the line, and get a move on us 

 from start to finish. And if we do that I believe that the next 

 ten years will see just as great an advance, but it means more 

 brains and less hard work." [Applause.] 



Mr. Ives: "I remember when our late pomologist, Mr. 

 Augur, was alive, he told me that he didn't know just what 

 was the best thing for black rot. He said that you might 

 just as well cut down the trees. It shows that progress has 

 been made in ten years." 



A Member: "I could not help but think when Mr. Hale 

 referred to that Peach Yellows Commission. Ten years ago 

 there were people in this state who did not know there was 

 such a thing as the peach yellows." 



Mr. Hinman: "I know something of that peach yellows 

 legislation. Not of the peach yellows itself, but of the peach 

 yellows legislation. After various bills had been submitted I 

 read the bill which was passed. It proved a wonderfully good 

 bill. It was repealed. It was repealed because it cost. Now 

 there may be farmers here, and a good many farmers, but I 

 want to say to you right here that that bill was repealed 

 because it cost, and that was the only reason. I don't know 

 just what the militia of the state of Connecticut costs the 

 state, but somewhere between $150,000 and $200,000, for the 

 protection of the state from mobs. You go and examine the 

 headquarters of the city companies and see ! They call them 

 arsenals and armories, but they are the finest club rooms in the 

 state, and the state is paying a big sum of money every year 

 to keep those places up, and the only reason that the peach 

 yellows law was repealed was because there wasn't any money 



