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men for my purpose ; men who were fully competent for the 

 work that I had for them to do. I was perfectly satisfied with 

 their work. I paid them good wages; paid them every week and 

 only required of them a fair day's work. 



I offered them inducements to take an interest in the work on 

 the place and had no difficulty whatever, when in consequence 

 of a storm or for any other cause, in getting them to work a 

 little harder, or stay a little longer, as the case might require. I 

 do not remember an emergency of this kind occurring except 

 once during the time we were cutting wheat on the 29th of June, 

 and then I had to turn in and bind a station in very heavy wheat. 

 This fact is still very firmly fixed upon my mind, but I changed 

 the order of things next day by hiring an extra man till we got 

 done harvesting. 



"While it may be possible that Madison County is especially 

 favorable for raising farm crops suitable for the purpose stated 

 in this paper, I do not claim that it is so. It may, also, be pos- 

 sible that climatic condition or quality of soil in different parts 

 of the State might make it necessary to raise different crops. 

 But in my opinion with ordinary care the result would, prac- 

 tically, be the same. I think success,' as I have before stated, is 

 largely due to the taste and inclination of the individual, with 

 possibly a certain amount of determination. As an illustration 

 I will state that I started fruit-growing with no experience what- 

 ever, having been for forty years engaged in a calling that was 

 foreign to husbandry altogether, and I remember that at the 

 beginning I hustled things considerably, but I held on, till now 

 I can say that my success has almost exceeded my expectations. 



This article may not be altogether shipshape, but the ideas 

 embodied have been obtained by hard work and personal obser- 

 vation. I have always considered that one fact was worth a 

 dozen theories. A great deal more I know might have been 

 said on this most important subject, but if what I have said shall, 

 at this or some future time, induce an abler mind to finish what 

 I have begun, I shall feel amply repaid for the time and trouble 

 it has cost me to write this. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON SPRAYING FRUIT TREES. 



BY L. E. BRYAXT, PRIXCETOX. 



When the Spraying of Fruit Trees with solutions of arsenical 

 poisons was first advocated for the purpose of destroying the 

 canker-worm and other pests that work on the foliage of the 

 trees, its beneficial effects were apparent very soon after the 

 applications were made. The dead worms could be found in 

 numbers within a day or two, on the ground or on the leaves of 



