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and original researches into the great undeveloped future, and less 

 in delving into the ruins and ashes of the past, we would find our 

 people would reap an hundred fold more benefit from our schools 

 than they do at present. Any branch of horticulture would afford 

 a fertile field for the investigations of a whole army of students, 

 and the more they would investigate it the broader the field would 

 become. We can scarcely realize the important position horticul- 

 ture holds in our social economy. The demand for the products 

 of the garden and orchard increase in a much faster ratio than the 

 population. With iucreased facilities for transportation and 

 the improved processes for drying and canning fruits, they have 

 become an every day necessity, even to the masses, and the more 

 labor saving machinery is introduced and the more wealth ac- 

 cumulates, the greater will be the necessity for extending our 

 productions, in order to draw the wealth from those who have an 

 abundance and give labor and the means of living to the laborer, 

 thus making all happy and contented. 



Mrs. Lewis, of Madison, followed with a paper on 



PSYCHOLOGY OF COUNTRY LIFE. 



Were I to choose a text, I think it would be one like this, il Oh 

 Lord how manifold are Thy works ! in wisdom hast Thou made 

 them all; I he earth is full of Thy riches." How little many of 

 us realize what a blessing it is to live in a land full to over- 

 flowing with the best of earth's riches ; with food and clothing in 

 abundance ; wilh the most intelligent people and the best govern- 

 ment in the world ; with healthful Eeasons of heat and cold ; 

 with excellent soil for producing grain, grass and fruits, and yet 

 how little we heed these rich blessings; we take them as our 

 rights and forget to give anything in exchange for them. We 

 sometimes could almost wish that green leaves, lovely flowers, and 

 singing birds, would refuse or forget to obey nature's calling for 

 single year, or month, just long enough to properly awaken our 

 slumbering sensibilities to the obligations we owe to God and 

 man. The earth, sun, moon and stars, that have been objects of 

 such veneration to millions of earth's inhabitants since the begin- 



