382 State Horticultural Society. 



i? not an idle collection, made simply to be looked at. The whole study 

 is applied to furthering farm work and bettering the crops. As a result 

 ten acres, with over half of the surface applied to ornamental trees and 

 shrubbery, bring in a better income than an ordinary farm of one hundred 

 acres. Under the laboratory is a thoroughly furnished workshop, where 

 farm repairs may be attended to and inventive skill developed and en- 

 couraged. This is the new agriculture ; study applied to farming. 

 "Thought and thoroughness work all our modern miracles." It is easy to 

 see that in such an arrangement of buildings, shops and laboratories, 

 money is saved and money made, while character is built. 



"Experiment is the life of right farming, as it is the life of all 

 right labor." It is the keenest delight that we know to find out new things. 

 It is possible every year for a thinking agriculturist to create a new plant 

 or vegetable or fruit ; and in this creation it is also probable that he will 

 add something valuable to the world's store. It is this creative agriculture 

 v/hich brings a man into relation with the Supreme Creator. Boys once 

 engaged in such enterprises will never be content to give it up. Or if a 

 special aptitude calls them into some other occupation, they will carry 

 with them the taste and the sentiment which is here created ; and, soonei 

 or later, you will find them combining their mechanics or commerce with 

 ideal farming. Land culture, with all its toils, combines more that is 

 attractive than any other possible business. Work ! Hard work ? Yes, 

 tut where has nature provided a cushion except for fools ? Work is the 

 chief charm of life — if rightly apprehended. 



This, then, we find by such a farm as we have described — and we 

 have seen it — that the beautiful may be cultivated in conjunction with the 

 useful, without pecuniary loss ; or, as the owner expressed it, "Anyone 

 may cultivate the beautiful and make money at it." His sales are almost 

 strictly confined to fruits ; but he contends that it is quite as easy to com- 

 bine the beautiful with vegetable gardening and with dairy farming. 



The bee keeper and the poultry raiser are especially inviting \x> the 

 esthetic. Our country places should blossom as the rose; our farms 

 should be infinitely more beautiful than anything the towns or cities can 

 offer, with their parks and architecture. The first need is sympathy with 

 nature. "Nature gave me nearly every finest thing that I have. I have 

 simply let nature have elbow room, and have never cut down a tree without 

 thoroughly studying it for a whole year." This co-operation with nature, 

 backed up by a gentle soul, makes the problem easy. — E. P. Powell, in 

 Home and Flowers. 



"Fruit well sprayed is fruit half sold." 



