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and sweetness caught from scenes enacted in a home dominated by mo- 

 tives of love and sacrifice and piety. The most natural years of our lives 

 we live while we are children, and there is always rest and purification in 

 getting back in touch with them. When the burdens press a little heavily 

 and the future is thick with uncertainties, the wish will sometimes shape 

 itself that we might be back again among our free, fresh childhood days." 



It is in the every day of life that the world's best work is done. Some 

 one has so ably put it : "Anybody can do well on special occasions. Any- 

 body can do a heroic thing once or twice in a lifetime, but it requires 

 more strength to be faithful in the ninety and nine commonplace duties 

 when there is no special motive to stir the soul to its best effort, than it 

 does for one stern conflict which calls for heroism." 



Sweet content must reign. Live within our means and be happy. 

 Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right. 

 Be content to do a little, and we will be a link in the great chain of 

 humanity. "Life's fullest gifts are poured about the feet within whose 

 soul is found content." And thus we find from the cultured home de- 

 pends much. The influence is untold. A few lines from the sweet poet — 



' 'Tissues of life to be, we weave in colors all our own, 

 And in the field of doubting we reap what we have sown." 



Piano duet — Misses Patterson and Harvey. 



Aspects of Fruit Growing — Prof. S. A. Hoover, Warrensburg, Mo., 

 was read and will appear later. 



President Whitten. — Tomorrow we take up the orcharding question, 

 and will be glad to see you all here at 9 o'clock sharp. Until then we 

 stand adjourned. 



SECOND SESSION— WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 9:30 A. M. 



After the call to order by President Whitten, prayer was offered by 

 Rev. W. J. Simmons, 



The subject of the morning session was the apple orchard, and the 

 first paper was on Pruning and Cultivation, by A. T. Nelson, Lebanon, 

 Mo., which will appear further on. 



TREATMENT OF THE ORCHARD AFTER IT COMES INTO 



BEARING. 



(D. Lowmiller, Parkville, Mo). 



There are not many of us here today who have not tried it, realize 

 the magnitude of the undertaking, and the necessary amount of work 



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