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terest on the farm and I pay a good many other things beside, 

 and if I believed for one moment what Mr. Dartt here said 

 about the horticultural society I would not stay in it another 

 minute. (Laughter.) 



Mr. M. Pearce: I do not feel like discouraging horticulture 

 in Minnesota by any means. I think it is a very paying and 

 satisfactory business. We can grow fruit here of all kinds, but 

 it is a fact that some men cannot. A man that comes to Min- 

 nesota makes up his mind just what kind of a climate Minne- 

 sota has, winter and summer, and he can make up his mind 

 that he has got to take every advantage of the climate. It is 

 not every man that can do that. I will give you an illustra- 

 tion of this: I knew a man who had a small farm fifteen years 

 ago; there was nothing on it. He was one of those men that 

 could look ahead, had a mind of his own and knew just what he 

 could do. He set out all kinds of fruit on his farm and took 

 good care of it. He raised his crops besides, but he kept right 

 on with his fruit, and it was a very short time until they had an 

 abundance of fruit. Before that his children were not satisfied 

 on the farm, they did not want to stay, but they had a beauti- 

 ful home, plenty of fruit and they began to change their views 

 Some of those children grew up, were married and moved 

 away, but they come home now every summer and are per- 

 fectly delighted with their old home; it is surrounded by shade 

 trees, they have plenty of fruit, and everything is pleasant, 

 and I have never seen a place that is so delightful. Now, gen- 

 tlemen, with intelligence and industry there is no farm in Min- 

 nesota but what can be made a heavenly paradise, and I had 

 rather be there than in any other place. It is my religion — 

 perfect nature. I can study nature there. 



Prof. W. W. Pendergast: I was going to ask Brother Dartt 

 how it was that a man could cut off all hopes for a paradise be- 

 yond, but Mr. Pearce has answered that question. I see that 

 he makes an idol of nature, and in that way cuts off hope for 

 anything better hereafter, and I shall not have to call upon 

 Mr. Dartt to answer that question, because it is sufficiently 

 plain. (Laughter. ) 



Mr. Dartt: My paper is right exactly in that line. 1 do not 

 know that my paper is understood. May be I better read some 

 of it over again. ( Laughter. ) This last page is every bit of 

 it in that line, encouraging fruit growing, encouraging the 

 making of that paradise, because a man might perhaps never 

 see any but the one he had made. 



