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>sents itself, a buiicli will meet aud work together and get some solution. 



"Did you ever think seriously of how much you look at and do not 

 see? To illustrate this I once called special attention to a cherry tree 

 and passed blank cards around to the students and asked them to write 

 on the cards Avhat they saw. The cards came back with from one to 

 fourteen distinct things seen on that cherry tree. It taught me to study 

 It helped me. 



"Our Agricultural College is a unit. It is growing better, cleaner and 

 bigger every year. The state and the adjoining states ought to feel 

 proud of such an insitution and ought to be proud to have sons 

 graduate from such a school. This college graduates men that every 

 state in the Union will look up to with hope and pride. I thank you." 



Mr. Garfield: 



"I trust you will all understand the strain I am under when T an- 

 nounce the man I next ask to speak to you. He's unlike a merchant, who 

 once said, 'We merchants would die of starvation if we followed your 

 method and told all we knew to each other.' This brings the next toast, 

 'The Spirit of Brotherhood,' on which I will ask Mr. Friday to say a few 

 w^ords." 



Mr. Friday: 



"Toastmaster. Ladies and Gentlemen : I think fruit growers tell each 

 other all they know because we are all brothers. We have the spirit 

 of the little girl who was locked in a dark room. The mother did not 

 hear anything for sometime and finally went to the door and asked the 

 little girl what she was doing. The child answered: 'I have spit on 

 your new hat, I have spit on your new shoes and on your new gloves and 

 just now I'm waiting for some more spit to put on your new dress.' This 

 is about the way with the merchants. However, the farmers feel dif- 

 ferently. At the M. A. C. we have cut out the longer day and made a 

 shorter day of it and are getting along much better. There is one thing 

 for which we wish to thank General Grant and that is the hospitality 

 shown when he told his men to feed the other side. I think this is the 

 same spirit as the members of the Michigan State Horticultural So- 

 ciety show and it certainly is an excellent one. I thank you." 



Mr. Garfield: 



"One of the most interesting things about horticulture is the woman's 

 share of the work and we cannot get through without calling special 

 attention to this phase. I will ask Mrs. C. B .Cook to say a few words 

 on 'The Feminine in Horticulture.' " 



Mrs. Cook responded as follows: 



"Mr. Toastmaster, Friends : When but a little while since I was asked 

 to respond to 'The Feminine in Horticulture' tonight, my first thought 

 was that it would be rather a delicate matter for me to respond to this 

 toast. But my next thought was, 'Why not?' as I am head man on our 

 farm. I might pay any compliment I wished to this side of our vocar 

 tion. As in many other lines, there are two distinct phases to horticul- 

 tural life. The sturdier and more rugged side— the masculine; the op- 

 posite or gentler and more attractive aspect comprehends my subject at 

 this moment. 



"Horticulture is strongly feminine in its influence since it appeals so 

 greatly to feminine effort. Few, if any, lines of work are as fittingly 



