FARMERS" INSTITUTES. •'>! 



beautiful. Afterwards he set out other trees by the roadside and in 

 pasture fields, and established plantations of flowers. For the few years 

 he remained there he derived the keenest pleasure of his life from those 

 colonies of natiAc plants. Then he left the town and did not return for 

 twenty-five years, and when he did he visited his sunset rock and found 

 that the trees he set had grown to be forty feet high and helped to make 

 a wonderfully beautiful landscape. The place was noted for its beauty, 

 and thousands have sat where he sat that spring evening twenty-five years 

 ago and admired and were helped by its beauty, but to none of them was 

 it so precious as to him, for it was his by title far stronger than a war- 

 ranty deed. I know that that man feels that there is not a single day's 

 work he has ever done which paid so well as that done that spring d^.y, 

 as a truant boy. I know, too, that any such work which you may do with 

 a pure motive of making your street, your town, your Stnte more beauti- 

 ful will give you large returns in pleasure. 



WHAT CAN YOU DO? 



I had hoped that our Agricultural College, in connection with the State 

 Horticultural Society, would this spring start the work of inducing the 

 formation all over our State, of village and neighborhood improvement 

 associations or clubs through which such efforts might be united, wisely 

 directed, and made more etficient. This does not seem likely to be accom- 

 plished. But don't wait for it. Every man, woman and child can* do 

 something now toward making our State more as God would have it. It 

 may be that you can start such an association in your town or school 

 district. It is possible that all you can do is to put out of sight the old 

 wash boiler that lies by the roadside and which you have passed at least 

 a thousand times. But do that and then do the next thing, and keep 

 doing and you will find that- it pays. 



My friends, talk is cheap, but I assure you I believe in and feel the 

 truth of what I have said, and if I have increased in the least, even in a 

 single heart, the interest in and love for the beauty of the home which our 

 common Father has made and given us I have not talked in vain. 



THURSDAY FORENOON. 

 A. E. Palmer, presiding. 



QUESTION BOX. 



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Q. AVill some one from tlic Sa.uinaw vnlley give his experience with the Handy 

 Avagon? 



J. W. Morrice, Monroe Co.: [ bought n set of low down wheels in 1891. I am 

 using them yet and would not do without them. The Avheels are 36 inches in diam- 

 eter. 



N. E. York, Tuscola Co.: I use three of these wagons and recommend them for 

 general use on the farm. I Avould make the Avheels wholly of metal, with long 

 hubs. 



I. N. CoAvdrey: What about the waste of manure from the house closet? Can 

 it be easily and cheaply conserved? 



Geo. T. Powell: This is a matter that interests every fa/mily. In the country 

 home there can seldom be any system of Avater works and hence no water closets. 

 My suggestion would be to place, as a siibstitute, in the outhouse, galvanized pails 



