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Bright and pleasant, always fair; 

 Where each heart shall rest contented, 

 Grateful for each bounty there. 



" There each heart will rest contented, 



Seldom wishiag far to roam ; 

 Or, if roaming, still will ever 



Cherish happy thoughts of home. 

 Such a home makes man the better, 



Sure and lasting the control ; 

 Home, with pure and bright surroundings, 



Leaves its impress on the soul." 



Fruit Prospects. — At the close of the president's paper, re- 

 ports of the fruit prospects in the different parts of the state were 

 called for. 



Mr. Tuttle, of Baraboo, stated that for the first time in an expe- 

 rience of twenty-five years in fruit raising, had the crop been de- 

 stroyed by spring frosts; the apple crop is nearly a failure; grapes 

 on low ground are much injured, but are good on elevated sites; 

 in some places plums are little injured; in others they are killed; 

 strawberries, raspberries and currants promise an abundant yield; 

 pears seemed to have suffered less than the apples. The frost was 

 quite peculiar in its effects, doing, in places, much damage to the 

 hardiest varieties, while those much tenderer were almost exempt 

 from injury. 



Mr. J. S. Stickney, of Wauwatosa, reported that fruit along the 



lake shore was apparently in a much better condition than in other 



parts of the state. The frost had injured the foliage of the trees, 



even killing it on many of the larger trees and on crabs; generally 



the foliage "was not over half what it ought to be, and its growth 



seemed to be wholly checked; the trees were full of apples and 



will give an abundant crop if the foliage develops sufficiently to 



mature them; pears are better than apples, and better even than 



last year. There are but few trees, but they are well loaded. The 



foliage of the Early Richmond Cherry was injured, but the trees 



are full of fruit, while on the Kentish variety, the leaves are good, 



but the fruit is injured; currants will be only a half crop; the fruit 



first set is all right, but the lower half of the stem was nearly killed; 



at first it was thought that little or no harm was suffered bv the 



strawberries, but the early blossoms were killed. As the season 



