Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-11-15
Welcome from Board Of Trade.

WeiConG from bOafQ OF trace.
Alderman Eugene C. CARL. president
of the Augusta Board of Trade. in well
coming the convention guests. said in
part:
We are not only pleased to have
you here but are sire that the pleas
ure is mutual and that, in common
with ali good citizens of Maine. that
you like to come mere. that your pleas
ire in meeting in the Capital City of
your State is a part of the general lik-
Ing of the citysof Augusta that is maxi
ing il tie fayorite convention city of
Maine.
The interests o. agriculture. COM
merce and the industries are mutual.
Farm prosperity makes an ever in
creasing contribution to commerce. Not
only does the city man realize more
fully than ever before how much of
his prosperity is based on a prosperous
agriculture but there has developed
widespread ambition among them 10 do
some OF the farming themselves. Farm
ing is Becoming the style.
As an old Granger Il found the re-
cent meeting of the State Board of
Trade nnAich like a Pomona meeting.
The president reminded them that the
subject7sof new industries should have
attention but they kept right on talk
ing abaut fertilizers and crops. When
interested; these keen business men
prove no mean students of the prob
lens of agriculture
The recent great Corn and FRUIT
Show in the city of Portland showed
not only an interest," in the subject as
,f
mess but an intense interest among
business men in the occupation itself.
In making up the large list of special
prizes contributed principally by citi-
zens of our city, we especially noted
their interest in the business and Sc
curing the contributions was the east
est thing you ever saw.
You have met to promote a great
branch of agriculture. Your exhibit
ton will stimulate interest, and your
program of addresses by specialists
will lead to better and more profitable
practices. / hope you will also induce
those who know how to de things
right to branch out; to extend their
operations. We need to break away
from seven by nine efforts and pod
augur methods. All branches of farm
ing should have the Aroostbok spirit
throughout the State. When the
Aroostook man got the right method
he dropped the potato patch idea and
planted field. Extend your opera
tions. Expand and keep expanding.
Years ago a prominent man in one
of Names cotton mills, when a new
building was finished. said The cor
poration has laid its last brick-it has
room enough" but it has been laying
brick ever since ard is still at it.
recently was in Northern Maine.
listening to their perpetual potato
talk. when one told of a man he met
in Western Maine who said he had
gone into the potaso business big, was
into it way up to his ears. Asked
how many he said "Pve got seven acres
of themi" Seven acres? And then
those big. hearty Aroostook men
threw back their heads and laughed
and shouted at the idea of seven acres
being anything-several Of them had
over a hundred. Now | am not trying
to advertise Aroostook. neither would
I belittle seven acres as that is some
potatoes" but do wish that the broad
gauge view of extended operations by
right fmeul0ds might spread all over
Maine in oreharding or whatever crops
may be grown to best advantage.
When l was a boy I saw an old house
torn down. 1t was dilapidated and
weathefwprn, looking as though it had
stood there since the first settlement
of the town. but an old man showed
me a grass grown hollow in pasture,
surrounded by cid apple trees. which
marked the original dwelling on that
farm. al recently visited that spot and
found one tree left, loaded with frnit.
1t is only one of the many old apple
trees that show the hardness and
long Hfeoof the fruit on. Maine soil.
tried tos picture. the pioneer as he
plantedRthe tree, his pleasure, when it
fruitesEe in finding il of good flavor
and goodtikeepersi / pictured the
childsen of that oldrtime family bring
ing them from the cellar and eating
them at the bread hearth-stone while
their great freselp the. chimney, roar
ed Still th& Mee xiff5lrashAd | Mile
their childrenG AMI their children's
children game -.Hn1 lived and were
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