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adulterated. But ignorance is bliss when he knows not that his 

 granulated sugar is mixed with gluco, made from old cotton shirts, 

 his butter and cheese are not made from cholera hogs and rancid oils, 

 full of vegetable and mineral poisons. It may be folly to be wise, 

 when it might cause hunger. 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



Song — By Miss Grace Beecher. ' 



RESOLUTION 

 BY H. J. DUNLAP. 



Whereas, Death has removed from his sphere of usef uhiess in this 

 life, Mile Barnard, President of the Illinois State Horticultural Society, and 

 feeling that his work in the line of horticulture is worthy of more than a 

 mere passing notice, and being desirous of testifying to his worth, therefore, 



Resolved, That in his death the cause of horticulture has sustained a 

 great loss and one not easy to repair; that his enthusiasm in the cause is 

 is worthy of imitation and his industry in examinmg thoroughly every 

 subject connected with horticulture an example which all horticulturists 

 would do well to follow. 



Resolved, Further that we tender to the family of our deceased friend 

 and brother in horticulture, our heartfelt sympathy in their bereavment. 



The resolution was adopted. 



OUK GIRLS. 



BY MES. H. M. DUNLAP, OF SAVOY. 



To us, of rural life and pursuits, what subject is of more impor- 

 tance or interest than the training and rearing of our girls. It 

 should employ our thoughts and time as much as any of the per- 

 plexing topics of horticulture. 



Are we each and everyone doing all we can to help make true, 

 pure lives of the young surrounding us, and within our homes ? It 

 requires a forgetfulness of one's self, patience, and withal a love for 

 them, for our influence to be of permanent and lasting effect. We 

 become to much absorbed with our own special round of duties (or 

 supposed ones), to think we have time to spend in that direction. 

 We leave them too much to seek and find their own amusements, 

 their companions, and books to be read. When from one illy-chosen 

 friend or playmate, the influence of which nmy be felt through life, 

 or the reading of one book of a trashy nature, tastes may be formed 

 that will require many efforts to overcome. 



