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every farmer at least once a day if it is carried to the city homes 

 several times a day. We are certainly entitled to it. 



The Grange is trying to develop a greater sentiment for the love 

 of the farm home and each year we are trying to make our homes 

 more attractive; but we need help along this line. If a general 

 system of landscape gardening could be conducted utilizing our 

 native shrubs and flowers the farm homes could be made more 

 attractive and their value increased as well at a very small expense. 

 One can not travel in New England and fail to recognize the good 

 work that has been done along this line nor the high standard of our 

 fruits and flowers, much of which we owe to our various horti- 

 cultural societies. 



No words can fittingly describe the power of a beautiful home. 

 Once you begin to beautify your home you will have more respect 

 for yourself and your home, and the boys and girls growing up on 

 the farm, even if they do not stay there, will have a love and rever- 

 ence for the beautiful farm home that will make them stronger, 

 purer, and better men and women. The success of the farm does 

 not depend any more upon the crops it produces than it does upon 

 the intelligence, contentment, and happiness of its homes and 

 people. 



The New Englander, no matter how much he may be westernized, 

 or where he has traveled, keeps an unexpected fund of sentiment 

 for the New England home, which is not excelled anywhere in the 

 country; and a fitting time to welcome them all back will be at the 

 300th anniversary of the landing of our Pilgrim Fathers, in 1920. 



We have some of the largest manufacturing establishments in 

 the world in New England and no finer fruits or vegetables are 

 grown anywhere. A grand exj^osition or World's Fair if you will, 

 showing to the world the resources of New England would cost 

 money and effort; but would not the increased prosperity to our 

 agriculture and other industries be worth the cost ? 



We have abandoned farms and we have abandoned manufactur- 

 ing plants, both of which should be utilized to produce the things we 

 consume instead of paying transportation companies to bring them 

 to us and I note with regret that our Massachusetts legislature 

 should have felt the need of economy to such an extent as to refuse 

 to allow S2000 to the State Board of Agriculture for investigating 



