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ped a package of goods that was a little poor I always made 

 it a rule to write to the merchant and tell him that it was 

 not quite up to the standard, 



G. J. Kellogg — I would recommend to Mr. Adams that he 

 use Mr. Smith's name. 



Pres. J. M. Smith — The next thing upon our list is "Life 

 of Women on Farms, as It Is and as It Should Be," by Mrs. 

 Hollister. I understand that Mrs. HoUister has not arrived 

 yet, and in her absence we will listen to Mrs. Campbell, of 

 Evansville. 



ETHICS OF HORTICULTURE. 



By vie H. CAMPBELL. 



" As a man thinketh so is he, " may well be supplemented 

 by the expression, as a man worketh so is he. When man, 

 through the exertion necessary to applied effort, has become 

 self-sustaining, he has climbed the first round of the ladder 

 of individual existence — has become an important factor in 

 the industries of the world. 



The primal man — possessing onlj' the most limited mental 

 outreach, feeling but the promptings of physical needs — was 

 stimulated to only a sufficent amount of exertion necessary 

 to provide for those demands, viz., food and shelter. As 

 his ideas of each were very crude his efforts to obtain them 

 were sluggish and limited and were only stimulated by im- 

 mediate demand, and he manifested little or no desire to pro- 

 vide for future emergencies. But, after a period of slow 

 evolution, the inner man was developed to a degree that the 

 needs of the individual were largely multiplied. Especially 

 would this be the case if he dwelt in a climate sufficiently 

 rigorous to give him brain stimulus, if it was too rigorous he 

 would remain enervated and sluggish as in the other ex- 

 treme. As his wants became multiplied new appliances for 

 obtaining those necessities became necessary and his hands, 

 directed by his crude ideas, began clumsily to fashion them 

 and he had climbed another round of the ladder. 



