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ance. There has been the same change in Ohio. Illinois and 

 Indiana are the successful producers of stock, and the history 

 of Michigan, for the last year, shows that the production of 

 wool, and the export of beef and pork now going on, and the 

 product of her dairies have brought more money to her farm- 

 ers than her wheat crops, valuable though they have been. It 

 is this diversified husbandry which will prove her wealth and 

 salvation, that we wish to encourage; and as a permanent 

 industry, a perpetual source of revenue, a business which will 

 employ thousands of honest hands, we take an interest in 

 fruit culture. Not as an adornment or embellishment do we so 

 highly recommend Pomology. If this was all, my limited 

 knowledge of the art would keep me from the public view as 

 an officer of a Pomological Society. But States must study 

 their opportunity. If they have mineral resources, they must 

 develop them and stand by them. Salt wells, magnetic 

 springs, gypsum beds, forests of pine, are fruitless and useless 

 when undeveloped. 



No doubt the prairies of Iowa, tilled by labor-saving 

 machinery, can outstrip the wheat fields of Michigan, but 

 Michigan can beat Iowa in wool, and can ship her grain to 

 market quicker and cheaper, in the shape of pork and beef, 

 than can Minnesota. 



These are the advantages to be cultivated and prosecuted 

 with zeal and energy. 



BENEFITS OF A VARIETY OF PROFESSIONS. 



A new form of industry is a boon to the laboring millions. 

 Fruit culture, as an industrial resource, ought to be hailed 

 with pleasure and gratification. The advantages of any new- 

 production are manifold. A crowded occupation or profession 

 begets competition, which brings on reduction of the prices of 

 labor, and consequent want and poverty. If all men were 

 farmers, there would be but few farms. Manufacturers, 

 mechanics, commercial men, afford markets and consumers 

 for the tillers of the soil, and they that manufacture do not 



