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stock. They must have warmth, or you will have to supply extra 

 food for this purpose, with impaired assimilatiou. An hour's ex- 

 posure to cold winds with icy water, will perceptibly diminish the 

 milk secretion and fat forming capacity, in your stock. 



Your homes should be beautiful — flowers and all kinds of fruit 

 trees planted. A profitable tree to plant, independent of your or- 

 chards, is the walnut. They are deep rooted, fast growing trees, 

 delight in low rich grounds, sheltered from the winds, and in less 

 than half a century will pay for the farm. The walnut will have 

 its cycle of demand and there is none growing to till it. The ground 

 can be farmed close to the tree and the shade does not injure the 

 grass and grain like the maple. 



Utilizing all waste grounds and products, husbanding your fer- 

 tilizers, wonderful crops will repay your labor, and your income 

 from your fine stock will enable you to live with that comfort that, 

 is now a stranger to most farm homes, and your days will be days 

 of pleasantness, and your lives will be cast in pleasant places. 



TEUSTS. 



By F. W. WHBATAM, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 



Out of the three or four subjects which were suggested to me for 

 this occasion, I rather ambitiously chose to talk to you upon the 

 subject of the trust problem, although I was well aware that with- 

 in the limits of an address such ps I w^ould be expected to prepare 

 for you, I could only touch upon the most general features of the 

 subject, and point out to you, in the most general way, what merit 

 was claimed for the institution on the one hand, and what dangers 

 were apprehended from it on the other. Nevertheless, considering 

 the importance of the subject, and how vitally the outcome of it 

 will affect us, not only as a nation, but as individuals, I have pre- 

 sumed, not to give you my own thoughts of the matter, but to gather 

 together the best thoughts of the best thinkers, and lay them before 

 you, so that your own thoughts may be quickened, and your own 

 ideas developed, along the line of what is shortly bound to be the 

 all-absorbing economic question of the country. 



This trust problem will become an issue in politics, and our fran- 

 chises will be sought to maintain, to check, or to overthrow it, and 

 it is our duty, therefore, as good citizens, lo learn what we may 

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