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tities of peaclies cheap, but I didn't see a cheap peach on the 

 market. It cannot be calculated, the thousands of dollars 

 that were added to the income of the peach growers of this 

 State. There is more of hope in this act, to the farmers of 

 Connecticut, than any act that has taken place for years. 



There are two factors that seriously interfere with the 

 adoption of the principles of co-operation by farmers in 

 general. 



First, we cannot control the output of our production. 

 Xo man can forecast what the harvest will be of any one 

 crop. 



The other feature that has been a puzzle is the matter 

 of our location, improper facilities for steady communication 

 with each (jther. This will be ameliorated as time passes, 

 as each mile of macadam road, each mile of new trolley, each 

 new telephone that goes in, accelerates and ameliorates this 

 condition. But let us hold fast to the lessons we have learned 

 in the past. Let us go ahead and constantly seek to organ- 

 ize so as to thoroughly understand each other's needs and to 

 help obtain a satisfactory price for our products. 



There is another phase of country life I would allude to. 

 To those who aim their vision above the horizon of drudg- 

 ery on the farm, work in the country, on the farm, is un- 

 equalled by any other calling', and which, when compared 

 with the close application required by the average conditions 

 of work in the cities, makes that work in the cities when 

 compared with the opportunities ofifered in the country, at 

 least proximate refined slavery, if not abject slavery. 



ToASTMASTER Hale : We are fortunate to-night in hav- 

 ing with us the Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, 

 Col. James F. Brown, and he will now speak to us, taking 

 sense or nonsense as his topic. 



Secretary Brown: T have been told just now that I 

 could talk either sense or nonsense. If I could talk either 

 as eloquently as our Toastmaster can, I should challenge 

 William J. Brvan at once in a contest for the presidential 

 nomination in 1912, and I would expect to win. 



