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plat of l)eiries, or rows of grapes, have a money value in them of no small amount. A 

 few barrels of apples for summer, fall and winter use, a few baskets of pears and peaches 

 and cherries, a few gallons of the various small fruits, for canning or preserving in many- 

 other forms, with which to grace the table each day in the year, have in them an actual 

 cash value of no mean proportions. And he who has to provide for :he wants and needs 

 of a family, on a farm or elsewhere, who will produce and use them generously, will 

 verify this assertion. 



But I must close. To every farmer, then, that I might hope to influence, I would 

 say, first, plant an orchard, not of apples alone ; but add a few of the hardier and better 

 sorts of pears, peaches and cherries. Then j^lant a row or so of raspberries, a few rods 

 of Wilson's strawl^erries. adding as many of the other small fruits as taste and a sound 

 judgment will warrant; then crown the whole with a well laid out lawn, dotted with 

 evergreens and other ornamentals, and here and there a flower-bed, and you and your 

 family will be richer, heathier, happier, better, for the expenditure. 



The essay was commended as being eminently pertinent to the sub- 

 ject embraced. 



Mr. B. G. Grover feared that if the farmer engaged in all the pur- 

 suits named in the essay, some of his irons would burn. 



Dr. Hollowbush thought the e.ssay embraced the right ideas ; that 

 the vocation was of the most healthful kind ; that nothing was so well 

 calculated to refine our natures as working among small fruits and 

 flowers. 



Mr. Chittenden thought small fruits did not amount to much ; that 

 strawberry culture had pretty well run out, and referred to the time when 

 everybody was growing them, and no sale for them, and that there was 

 no money in them. 



The President combated the idea that there was no money in small 

 fruits; that the meaning of the essayist was misunderstood where he says 

 there is a money value which cannot be estimated. 



Mr. Hammond spoke of the pleasure of the cultivation of small fruits 

 and their inestimable benefits to health, contributing largely to the enjoy- 

 ment of life, to say nothing of the profits. 



W. N. Grover agreed with the essayist, and elucidated the subject 

 with appropriate remarks. 



On motion, the essay was ordered printed, together with the pro- 

 ceedings. 



The President then called the questions: "To what extent is clover 

 grown? Is it usually sown for pasture, hay, or as a fertilizer?" 



Mr. Bliss did not think clover was grown very extensively; that 

 which was grown was mostly for pasture. He spoke of its excellent quali- 

 ties and adaptation as pa.sturage for hogs, cattle, sheep and horses. 



B. G. Grover corroborated Mr. Bliss' statements, and added that it 

 is valuable hay where it is properly handled. He had cut successive 

 crops two and three times a year, off the same ground, for five years. 



Mr. Hathaway said clover should be more extensively grown as a fer- 

 tilizer, rather than for hay or pasturage; he thought that there were but 

 few fertilizers used in this section other than barn-yard manure, and that 

 was poorly utilized ; that our soils are impoverished by long-continued 

 croppings, without a return of any fertilizing manures; would suggest turn- 

 ing under clover as the most ready and cheapest mode of renovation for 



