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'• I expected to see lots of apples, cider and cider-vinegar, dry and canned fruits, but 

 was sadly disappointed. The inembei-s said the fruit crop was such a failure, that they 

 had little to show. 



" I was surprised to hear that the making of cider from the sound, ripe fruit, and 

 vinegar from all of the refuse, had doubled the value of the orchards that pursued this 

 course of management. We have a nice orchard, and Sam says that he will see that 

 nothing in the orchard is wasted hereafter, and that the information obtained at this 

 meeting will fully pciy all the cost of our attendance. 



" In the evening there was a hurrying up so as to'get through, for some wanted to go 

 home, and others to visit the College. There were some papers read, and then followed 

 a discussion of small fruits and the passage of resolutions, and at half past ten the 

 Society adjourned. This gave us half a day to visit the College, which we did. There 

 ■..re aliout eighty girls and some three hundred boys in attendance, and, with the excep- 

 tion of the teacher of music, all the teachers are males. This looks a little strange, but, 

 I suppose, will be corrected in time. Then the walk to the College is a long one, but, 

 perhaps this is a good thing to give the girls more exercise ; at lexst the girls all look 

 healthy and pleased with the school, as they have the same government with boys, and 

 the same opportunities of study, except that they do not have to drill or wear the Uni- 

 versity suit. Some of the girls board in clubs, but most of them are residents of the city 

 and board at home. An attempt was made at what was called a domestic department, 

 but it has met with vei^ little success. It is simply a girls' club boarding-house, and 

 the girls that do the housework have certain wages. It was intended for the girls to do 

 all the work, under the direction of a matron ; but other labor has been found essential 

 10 success. Aljout one-third of the boys board in clubs. The better way is to board in 

 families, and give more attention to study, or rather devote the spare time in the librar)'. 



" The general style of dress is plain, and the students appear to be more anxious for 

 an education than for show. I presume our girls vvill conclude to attend the winter 

 term. " MRS. SAM. JONES." 



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