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to farmers in the state, and I am sure the state would be glad 

 to pay the expense of sending 50,000 of them, because it would 

 pay a profit to every man who reads the bulletins that are pub- 

 lished along his line. 



Mr." BLvrrison: Any arrangements made for educating 

 farm girls? 



Prof. Burnett: Not as good as there should be. There is 

 a School of Domestic Science at the University, that is a very 

 nice course. That takes up sewing, cooking, household econom- 

 ics and such questions. We hope very soon to have a building 

 at the farm where the girls can be taken care of, and then we 

 will offer courses for farmers girls which wiU be along this line, 

 taking in horticulture, dairying and some little agriculture, and 

 sewing, cooking and household economics and home making. 

 These subjects, some of them can be had now at the University 

 under our most excellent teacher, Miss Bouton, who I think 

 has been here at Aurora. 



PRESroENT : This is very interesting and of great importance 

 to the state. There are two classes of parents that have been 

 making a mistake — one that thinks it is foolish to give educa- 

 tion at all, and the other that thinks education is all, the fact is 

 the two go together. 



Meeting adjourned. 



ROSES. 



C. H. GREEN, FREMONT, 



In the earliest writings, both sacred and profane we find 

 mention of the rose, and away back in the days of ancient Rome, 

 the rose was as well known and as carefully cultivated as it is 

 today. Then as now it was considered the height of floral per- 

 fection and was very generally esteemed and used for orna- 

 mentation on both public and private occasions. 



An instance may be mentioned of the very significant* use to 

 which it was put by the Romans at some of their entertain- 

 ments and feasts. A rose was hung above the entrance and he 

 who passed under it silently pledged himself to forget or never 



