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we should study where to ship and how to market. But I predict ber. 

 lies will not be a drug in the market the coming season. The same 

 may be said of tree-fruit, although I never saw a better prospect for 

 all kinds of tree-fruit at this time of the year — apples, peaches, i)lum8, 

 pears, cherries, mulberries and grapes. Our fruit market is empty, and 

 consumers multiplying faster than producers, and I believe, as men 

 become more civilized and retined, they will consume less meat and 

 more fruit and vegetables. 



To see people eat strawberries, the first fruit to ripen, reminds me 

 of a cow or a horse turned in on green pasture, after a tough siege of 

 stall-feeding. 



More painful is the fact that so many families have not enough 

 fruit, and labor under the impression that fruit is a luxury only for the 

 rich, when in fact it is the cheapest and healthiest diet the farmer can 

 grow and eat. I cannot withhold my pen as I look over the broad 

 fields of nature, with the sun pouring down its rays of cheerfulness, 

 and see the rich, unoccupied land which should be made beautiful and 

 profitable, and so many families without fruit. Why is it so ? Few 

 farmers provide an ample supply of what would add so much to their 

 own and their families' pleasure. The appetite for fruit is a natural 

 one. 



How I should love, in this fruit-blessed country, to place at every 

 housekeeper's disposal a fruit garden of a size in proportion to her 

 needs. If I could, I know that my name would be blessed in every 

 home. 



Last, but not least, do not neglect brain food. Read horticultural 



and agricultural reports and instructive papers, in which is embodied 



the accumulated experience to lead to success. 



Jacob Faith. 



INSTINCT IX INSECTS, 



WITH NOTES UPON RECENTLY OBSERVED DEVIATIONS. 



Human reason has ever found in the manifestations of instinct in 

 the lower animals a subject of profound and undiminished interest. 

 Notwithstanding all that has been observed and recorded concerning it, 

 lexicographers, philosophers and naturalists have in vain essayed a 

 perfect definition of this marvelous faculty. A part of Webster's defi- 

 nition is as follows : "The natural, unreasoning impulse in an animal 

 by which it is guided to the performance of any action icithoid improve- 



