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miles out) and he thought that was the end. I went out one 

 day and telegraphed back that I had taken a vacation and 

 would be back when I found out what lay east of Jamaica. 



There is no room to live in New York and yet it is al- 

 most as big as London and London is starving to death. 

 New York don't get enough food ; not enough fresh food, or 

 enough of anything in fact, fruit or vegetables, no matter 

 how much you bring in. They are shipping onions from 

 Texas to New York — there is that great market right in 

 touch with you. Why don't you improve your opportuni- 

 ties? We have on Long Island 200,000 acres of land that 

 have not been touched, and you have some in Connecticut, I 

 dare say. There is a glorious opportunity in your valleys 

 here. You have your local markets and are close to New 

 York and the big New England cities. Friend Hale has 

 proved that. He used to wheel peaches in a wheelbarrow up 

 here to Hartford. Keep your eye open, your ear to the ground, 

 and watch your opportunities. There are more opportuni- 

 ties to-day than there have been in fifteen centuries. 



Think of it. The men in Texas and Dakota, 60 miles 

 from a railroad station, are doing well and competing with 

 us. What is the matter with us? Something. You can 

 accuse the railroads if you want to, but if it had not been for 

 them, the United States would not be cultivated now and the 

 Indians would be doing the scalp act yet. Railroads all over 

 the United States are starting experimental farms to attract 

 the attention of the world to the fact that there is land now 

 uncultivated in the great eastern States that is just as well 

 fitted to raise products needed in the cities as is the land in 

 the west. Some of us, because we have always lived here 

 and always done things in a certain way. haven't awakened 

 to the value of present day knowledge. Do you get the ex- 

 periment station bulletins ? Do you apply some of the knowl- 

 edge you gain by the reading ? You hear things at this meet- 

 ing every year. Do you take advantage of what you learn? 

 There is no man with brain big enough to take home with 

 him all that he hears, but he can get a little and put it into 

 practice. 



