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Read the bulletins. Spray not less than three times, whether 

 there is any blight or hugs. That is what those fellows are 

 doing-. You may be growing 265 bushels to an acre on an 

 average. They used to raise from 400 to 700 bushels in 

 Maine, now they are glad to get 210 bushels an acre. Send 

 the bovs to school and, when they come back, listen to what 

 they have to say. 



Another thing- I am proud of, and that is patriotism. 

 Let us never lack in our patriotism. 'Way back in 1776 

 they said it was lacking. We licked one of the biggest na- 

 tions in the world, save one, before we got through with 

 them. They said it was lacking again a few years ago and 

 that Spain would wipe the floor with the United States ; 

 that we could not get enough men to defend Boston and New 

 York harbors. Everv regiment was overcrowded and we 

 had ten or fifteen times the men we had in 1776 or 1865. 

 We have got them yet. You people didn't come here just 

 for apples and to listen to apple talk — you came for patriot- 

 ism, to improve your land — not your own individual acres, 

 but all Connecticut. We are full of it and will never get 

 over it. We are Americans. What are Americans? Span- 

 iards, Irishmen, Englishmen, Germans. Get into politics. 

 If it is rotten, clean it out. That is what we need. 



Look at Congress. The only bill that wasn't scaled 

 down in the last appropriation was the agricultural bill. 

 Why ? Because they saw the whole country was behind that 

 bill and was working for agriculture. They used to call us 

 "hayseeds ;" now we are "agriculturists." 



Don't raise any more Peck's Pleasant apples. There 

 are lots of good apples. Get them. Don't forget the New- 

 town Pippin and Albemarle Pippin. I had a friend tell me 

 about the Western fruit. Every year I buy some of those 

 beautiful California Bartlett pears — just two; there are five in 

 the family, and the baby don't eat them because he isn't a year 

 old yet ; I would feed him fruit, but the mother says it isn't 

 proper. We cut those pears in two and give each of the 

 girls a piece and each of us take a piece and take one bite. 



