Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-12-02

upon thorough knowledge of the
effects of fertilizers applied at differ
ent seasons of the year. Nothing short
Of a practical chemist can successfully
determine these things in these days
of sharp competition. But the analysis
Of soil ana fertilizers. and the knows
edge OF the markets. and how to OBJ
tain the high dollar for field crops is
but one of the many things the sue
ceSSful farmer of today must master
'Eher4 are what are styled money crops
There must be an intelligent stock
EuSbIndry connected Herewith, to
make practical agriculture successful
as d permanent business on Maine
farms. and see what this involves; all
Inc nice questions Of the relative value
of animal food. whether it can best
be raised or purchased, with the money
obtained from some So-calIed money
crop.
But even this is small part of The
knowledge that must be in the posses
sion of the successful farmer i'm Maine
today. He must be thorough stu
dent, not only of the different breeds
Of farm animals. but of the blood lines
his Knowledge of the complex. brains
rdcking. misunderstanding breeding
problem must be Of a very high order
or failure seals his doom on the very
start.
Just for a moment consider the com
pick problem of determining how to
hi eed animals Of different tenn
peraments, that have been bred
hundreds of Years for entirely
different purposes. 50 as to produce the
particular animal on your farm that
the tickle goddess of wealth and trade
IS going to want when the animal NAV
be matured
Talk about the cOmpIeX questions Of
tn" stock market or Of any future
market. they are nothing to be com
pared with it, and Yet. the reward
comes TO those who persist, and after
years Of patient toll and application
s'lVe the secret, and the reward is of
n" mean measure but is ample and
highly satisfactory
Now some Of You may wonder what
this had to do with our meeting here
today, or with the Central Maine fair. t,v-
erNthing, | would answer For the main
OBJECT of the Central Maine fair ana at
an other We'll established agricultural
falrs which are ground in the true faith
Is 10 reward the husbandman who hy his
persistent endeaVorS has been able to
pluck reward from this difficult and per-
picking vocation. The men who showed
the best stock at our fair this fan
whether ii was horses, sheep oxen or
swine. We're the men who have studied
the problems which | have so hastily run
over, precisely aS the successful fjn,r-
cier studies the great problems of trade
ana finance. They have read and CLEANED
from every obtaiEable source All the i'll
formation they could get, touching the
point of the greatest vital interest had
TO them and Experimental over that
Having thus prepared themselves it was
no accident by which they Were able I'd
bring such splendid specimens of the va
rlous breeds for exhibition, but II was
simply the immutaDle law that governs
cause and effect.
While we do not expect to be able 70 in
any degree repay them by our scanty
premiums for the long continued virij1
that have made their success so aDparert
Such fair as we hope to hold is n slight
acknowledgment Of the debt OF glatitiIdt,
we owe them for the degree OF success
theN have been able to attain. | hope I
have made it plain tina, under the present
strenuous life of the Maine agriculturist
success can only he obtained by 1hr hich
est and most intelligent effort along these
mes IL isn't question of whether Won
Will march al the head of the Procession
or IN the middle ranks. but il is n clean
cut plainly put proposition. whethe, Won
VIII he one of the few 10 head the nro
cessinn or whether you will give IN Inc
battle and let the procession pass over
you. wv
The object of the Central Maine fair
repeat, is TO acknowledge and IL encn,,r-
age success along ayricuItur.I ID 80.