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sey, \Yakefield, and Early AYinuengstad ; Corn — Early Minnesota and Stowell's 

 Evergreen; Lettuce — Malta Drumhead and All the Year Eound ; Onions — 

 Yellow Danvers ; Peas — Ferry's Extra Early, McLean's Little Gem, and York- 

 shire Hero; Salsify or Oyster Plant; Eadish — Long Scarlet Short Top; Toma- 

 to — Trophy, Hathaway' s Excelsior, and Canada Victor. There are other good 

 varieties so well known that it is unnecessary to name them. Tliose who have 

 no asparagus bed should set one out. By procuring j^lauts two years old you 

 (Can begin to nse it in a year or two after it is set out. Cauliflowers are seldom 

 raised by farmers. They are far superior to cabbage. Their culture is similar. 

 Celery is becoming quite popular, and more of it ought to be raised. There 

 ought to be more beets, carrots, and turnips raised to feed stock ; but they can 

 he raised in the field. I think most of us plant winter cabbage too early. They 

 get their growth and burst open quite often. 



The best way to keep weeds down is not to let them get a start. Stir the 

 ground while they are small. Worms and insects are enough to discourage the 

 •gardener. There are some remedies, but hand picking is the sure way. Of 

 ^course you all have a strawberry bed, and a few currant, gooseberry, and rasp- 

 .beriy bushes. 



I think most of you will find a good home market for fruits and vegetables. 



The following address on 



THE DUTIES OF THE FARMER AS A CITIZEN 



was given by Mr. James Brassington : 



I am well aware in this, as all great reforms, there are many difficulties to 

 be contended against ; mountains of prejudice to be levelled ; dead seas of igno- 

 rance to be filled. Yet from beneath the heaps of smouldering rubbish of the 

 dark ages ; with the march of intelligence, with the large acquisition of physi- 

 cal knowledge that characterizes our age, — the printing, the electric telegraph, 

 indeed, the whole inventive genius that speeds us boldly onward, there comes 

 a voice boldly claiming to place man, the cultivator of the soil, in his political 

 sphere. The stale and heinous vaults of conservatism are to be unlocked by 

 the keys of duty, while the blinded eye of the husbandman that has long veiled 

 from him the sj^endor and beauty of being a freeman must be cured by the patri- 

 otic love for his country's good. 



Though the farmer's position in society is advancec] above that of his fore- 

 fathers, yet it is apparent that many have not realized the imjjending duty of a 

 good citizen. There are too many drones that live upon society, receiving the 

 profits and freedom of liberty, that give nothing in return. 



The sentiment of England's bravest naval hero, '^England expects every man 

 to do his duty," won for him a battle and a name ; but the sentiment has a 

 wider significance in every free land. Transferred to our shores and our times 

 it reads, "America expects every citizen to do his duty." To be a free and 

 independent people, each constituent has to shoulder great responsibilities. Nor 

 can he be able to further the blessing of liberty until he has learned to govern 

 himself, for it is obvious that this must constitute the very basis upon which 

 rests the foot-stool of freedom. 



The good citizen is not one who shirks his part, but one who manfully works 

 for the interests of his country. It takes energetic effort to travel against the 

 stream ; dead fish can float with it. Are the masses of us, our business men 

 and farmers, fulfilling their part ia this grand work? Let us see. 



