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crowd the ranks of the agriculturalists. If all manufacturers 

 should make one kind of fabric there would be no profit to 

 encourage or market to beguile. In agriculture the same rule 

 holds good, and mixed husbandry is best for all. Sheep, wool^ 

 and mutton for some ; stock, beef, and pork for others ; dairy, 

 butter, and cheese for those whose lands are adapted to it; 

 grass and grain for all, sufficient to some for home consump- 

 tion, to others to supply the markets at home and abroad. 



This, it appears, is the character of the agricl^lture of Mich- 

 igan — best adapted to her soil, climate and location. In addi- 

 tion to these, it is the object of the State Pomological Society 

 to encourage and develop a new husbandry, — a new industry, — 

 fruit culture. Not merely as an amusement or recreation; 

 not only to beautify our homes and ornament our landscape; 

 but as a food-producing, labor-employing, honorable occupa- 

 tion and business, and source of wealth. We seek to bring it 

 forward as adding to the other industrial agencies which ena- 

 ble a people to procure food, to provide homes, to educate the 

 youth, to erect charitable institutions, and otherwise buiW up 

 a commonwealth of law and order, justice and morality, 

 intelligence and refinement. 



That statesmanship is the best and truest that furnishes for 

 a people opportunities to earn an honest livelihood by multi- 

 plying the number of industries. 



THE TKUE POLICY. 



New England is great to-day, because her industries are 

 great and manifold, and cover the wants as well as the luxuries 

 of mankind. Even her agriculture is progressing, rapidly 

 and hopefully, because she is surrounding it with kindred 

 though separate and distinct husbandries. Her labor is varied, 

 and therefore is not pauper labor. There is something for 

 every hand to do, and consumer and producer are brotherly 

 neighbors. Even in horticulture, New England sends us the 

 best of apples, the best of grapes, the best of strawberries, and 

 the best of pears. 



