THIRTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT. 153 



Deeds are the fruits, the achievements resulting from proper planting, careful training 

 and judicious pruning, with sometimes the grafting of a better variety, for the human 

 tree is ever susceptible to the pure and good in others. 



More than the root and the blossom, 

 More than the thought and the speech, 

 There is a wonderful fruitage 

 Souls that are noble may reach. 

 Deeds are the fruits, earnest doing 

 Seeking the truth, not renown, 

 Wins for the soul a fair garland 

 Better than king's jewelled crown. 



Ah, in the home nursery are possibilities greater than can be measured, for not only does 

 the training, the pnming, the grafting, the development of the young trees reach out 

 through the earth-life with promise and blessing, but also stretches out through the 

 vastness of an eternity which is beyond all human comprehension. 



SMALL FRUITS ON THE FARM. 



The last nmnber on the program was an interesting discussion of the above by Mr. A, 

 J. Crosby, of Oakland county. Small fruits should be in every farm garden and are worthy 

 to be given the same regular consideration that is furnished the com crop. The table can 

 be more economically provided, besides the health of the family better insured and the 

 pleasure of li\dng much increased with the fresh fruit direct from nature. Farmers often 

 neglect the small fruit because they think the products can be purchased easier and cheaper 

 than they can be grown; but where it is thus left the universal result is that the family 

 goes without and eats salt pork and beans instead. We should not become discouraged 

 because enemies exist in the fomi of insects and fungi, for they do not as a general 

 rule trouble the small patch in the general fanning district as.much as large areas in fruit 

 growing sections. Go at the work systematically, have a regular time for the work and 

 do not leave it to the children alone but all work together to make this the best spot on 

 the farm. 



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