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Those who feel compelled to work beyond their strength in any 

 calling, or those who are discontented and always ready to look upon 

 the dark side of life, rarely have good health, but those who take 

 pleasure in their profession and can take needed rest and recreation 

 will find this the most healthful of occupations. 



The open air, sunlight and fragrant bloom, the many varieties of or 

 changes in the line of work, the pleasures incident to watching the 

 growth and unfoldment of trees, bloom and ripening fruit, together 

 with the well-known health-giving properties of ripe and perfect fruit 

 as an article of diet, are all conducive of good health. 



The naturalness of fruit as food marks it as healthful, also helpful^ 

 in the formation of character. 



The little child, or the most refined, tender-hearted person does 

 not hesitate to pluck and eat, knowing that no pain is given, no life is 

 taken, while to kill the faf.ted calf, the pet pig or pretty chicken is 

 something they rarely wish to see done and never wish to do. 



Physiologists tell us that we partake largely of the food we eat in 

 the formation of our character, and upon this hypothesis it is claimed? 

 other things being equal, that those who live largely upon a fruit diet 

 acquire the most even temper, the best nature, and become the most 

 agreeable associates. 



It is also known that as good fruit is not stimulating in its nature, 

 its use does not lead to a desire for strong drink, but tends rather 

 toward temperance. 



Thus we see to some degree the ennobling influences surrounding 

 the horticultural profession. A man who is capable of planting an orchard 

 that he is proud of — one which attracts the admiration and brings praise 

 from the visitor or the passer-by, cannot be content with crooked zig- 

 zag rows, with gnarled and misshapen trees; neither can he be content 

 to see unsightly weeds and grasses surrounding them, or crowding in 

 and covering his vines and flower-beds. 



To such, this calling causes the very atmosphere surrounding him 

 to be filled with a desire for the beautiful, upright and symmetrical, and 

 he desires to have all persons grow with upright and lovely characters, 

 uncontamiuated with low vices, which surround the young in some com. 

 munities, as cockle-burs and other noxious weeds surround the crooked 

 and stunted trees and neglected vines of some fruit-growers. 



The influence of the first-named is far-reaching in causing his neigh- 

 bors to emulate the example he sets. 



He also establishes a reputation for himself in the markets, which 

 enables him to receive the best prices for his fruits, as the purchaser 

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