108 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



richer for having come here this morning. I beUeve we 

 have gained much from the ehxjuent address of the s})eaker. 

 No matter what our business may be, we have gained new 

 ideas. The farmer needs to have his mental horizon broad- 

 ened and enriched. Tliere is no better place to think than 

 on the farm. 



I want to say a word about summer boarders. They may 

 enrich the farmer's resources and also his life by broadening 

 his horizon. I believe every year nearly ever}^ farmer can 

 take boarders in the summer time, and make money out of 

 them. Give them good milk without specks in it, and good 

 butter, — not the kind they can find in the city stores, — 

 and give them good beds to sleep on, and make them com- 

 fortable. 



My native town was running down about the time Avhen I 

 was a boy, and the church attendance was falling oft'. A 

 good many people were moving out, and things looked 

 l)rctty blue there ten years ago, until we took up the summer 

 boarder business. Now we have more and more boarders 

 there every year. Our church gets better support. Men 

 have more money to pay their bills with. The boarders have 

 considerable money with them, and they keep in touch with 

 our private life. Every man from the city brings a cro}) of 

 new ideas. More than this, I believe the farmers enrich the 

 boarder's life. They go back to the city with a new idea of 

 home life, home as it should be, and it helps them to live 

 a more ideal and useful life. 



Mr. James Draper (of Worcester) . My line of Avork is 

 in trying to make the world a little more beautiful and invit- 

 ing, in embellishing the homes and })arks of our city, and 1 

 want to emphasize what the lecturer said about advertise- 

 ments on barns and fences. The idea comes out often in 

 the economics of the farm, — that the owner cannot aft'ord 

 to make these improvements. If they cannot do that, there 

 certainly is no reason for making it worse, and for a small 

 compensation allow their Imildings and fences to be degraded. 



The Chair. I see Mr. Anderson of Shelburne here. He 

 is a successful farmer, and we would like to hear from him. 



Mr. Anderson. I havci been very nuich interested in the 



