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“The Farm,’ etc. Each strives to make his paper or speech as 
much of a literary production as time, ability and past advantages 
will permit, Two or three hours are used with such work, when the 
committee on program for the next meeting reports. Then we ad- 
journ with the assurance that our club is a grand success and the 
day well spent. 
An exchange of magazines and books is another good feature, one 
subscription giving each the reading of several different publica- 
tions. We are also in proper harmony of thought and purpose to 
do much valuable and needed work in the community, such as 
beautifying and caring for our country cemetery, planting fruit 
and ornamental trees, flowers, etc., about our homes, along the 
roads, on the school and church grounds, especially the planting of 
of fruit trees by the public highways for the boys and the stranger 
who may come our way. Nothing less than ideal farms, farm life 
and living is our object, and to help each other to test its possibili- 
ties and so elevate our profession and position in life thatas “tillers 
of the soil” we may look down from our exalted position on at least 
a part of the world, and not everlastingly feel that we are the worms 
of the dust. 
We also hope to hasten the time when the growing of fruits and 
flowers shall not be done for the “money there is in it’ and that 
only, but that all may better understand the thought of their Crea- 
tor who placed them in this world that they might be used as ex- 
pressions of love and sympathy; and we should study and learn to 
Place them where most needed, in homes where sickness and be- 
reavement are known, in hospitals and jails, schools and churches, 
&c.,&c.; also, that willing hands, for the love of fruits and flowers, not 
money, may plant, cultivate and use these expressions of God’s love, 
with the same thought they were given. 
We hope to interest and help our schools in such work. Such a 
society as we have, should and can be formed in every neighbor- 
hood in Minnesota; they will be in demand by all up to date rural 
districts when their value is learned and possibilities tested; they 
will adapt themselves to the needs of each particular community 
and become self-supporting fixtures in society. Test these state- 
ments with a practical example in your home, inviting neighbors 
to join you. 
HUBBARD COUNTY HORTICULTURAL CLUB— 
ANNUAL REPORT. 
A. W. LATHAM, SECY.:—I herewith hand you the report of the Hub- 
bard County Horticultural Club for the first quarter of 1898. 
The club was organized January 22, 1898, by the election of the 
following officers: President, S. W. Usher; Vice-President, F. M. 
Shepard; Secretary, H. Hazlett; Treasurer, L. D. Frazier. 
A constitution and by-laws were adopted as recommended by the 
state society. The membership of this club at this report is more 
than twenty-five, of whom twenty-five are members of the state so- 
ciety, and have received the state reports. 
Meetings have been held every two weeks since the organization, 
but after May 1st will be held once a month. 
Interest in the discussions has increased steadily from the first, 
and we have good prospects for a useful and prosperous society. 
ENOS M. RICKER, Sec’y Pro Tem. 
Park Rapids, Minn., March 31, 1898. 
