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ated foods. There is money in it, and the manufacturer consequently 

 has money to spend, in order that he may continue to gull the public. On 

 the contrary the people who favor such legislation have only honest effort 

 to promote the passage of honest laws. Public sentiment should be 

 BO strong at the next session of the Legislature that a representative of 

 the people, voting against a bill whose object is protection of the people 

 against fraud, may be known to be in league with the pocket book of the 

 unprincipled sophisticator of human food. 



HORTICULTURAL DAY. 



WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 12. 



A letter from Mr. Geo. B. Horton, Master of the State Grange, who 

 was to preside at the Institute, stated that it would be impossible for him 

 to be present. This day being Horticultural Day, Prof. Taft, of the Agri- 

 cultural College, was called to the chair. 



CULTIVATION AND CARE OF PEACHES. 



MR. ROLAND MORRILL, BENTON HARBOR. 



Before beginning on my subject, I would like to spend about one min- 

 ute on something which has been forcibly impressed upon me within the 

 last month, that is that farmers are a little slow in getting acquainted 

 with the business at hand. They don't take up' the topic as readily as 

 they would like to, not through indifference, but many are a little diffi- 

 dent, bashful. That ought not to be the case, but it is. I saw an illus- 

 tration of that at the Long Institute last week. At the close of the ses- 

 sion, after a four days' meeting, everyone was ready to do or say some- 

 thing. They wanted to go into detail. The complaint was that the whole 

 thing had been too short. But the first day they didn't warm up. 



What I can say to you is simply outline, but what the people are look- 

 ing for are the details, the little things, and they can only be brought out 

 by a thorough discussion of any topic. 



[A series of lectures by Mr. Morrill on "The Peach," delivered at the 

 Long Institute at South Haven, includes this lecture on the "Cultivation 

 and Care of Peaches," and will be found in subsequent pages. See 

 index for exact page. We here include, however, the discussion on the 

 subject at Grand Rapids. — K. L. B.] 



