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Dutcher, sparrow hawk, screech owl, the birds which feed largely upon 

 the sparrows, and the appointment of one or more persons in every 

 town to officially take measures for their destruction. 



The report also suggests several means by which they can be ex- 

 terminated, among them being by firearms, tearing down their nests 

 by an iron rod or hook, and driving them from their roosts bj- turning 

 a stream of water upon them. In this connection it should not be 

 forgotten that the English sparrow is an excellent article of food, 

 equalling many of the smaller game birds. 



IN CONCLUSION. 



Every member of our Society, for the attachment they entertain for 

 it, should feel a personal desire to promote its welfare at all times and 

 places. They should employ their best ability, ideas, desires and 

 ambitions to contribute to its advancement, and help adjust the many 

 perplexing difficulties to be overcome. Every opportunity should be 

 improved for establishing in the mind of some man, woman or child 

 the love or desire of becoming proficient in the art of cultivating 

 beautiful flowers that shall please with their perfume the delicate 

 sense of smell, or delicious fruits exciting enjoyment to their cultivated 

 palates, or splendid trees that shall impart a pleasant shade from the 

 noonday sun and give shelter to their declining years. With each, 

 neglect of this should leave a feeling bf- duty unperformed. Some- 

 times a look or word of inquiry may be the means of exciting interest 

 or creating desires for developing some beautiful feature for pleasure 

 or use that will unfold and illustrate some fundamental truth over 

 which we have spent much time. 



The aesthetic studies in horticulture are each day disclosing to the 

 inquiring mind some very valuable examples worthy of our closest 

 attention, and as we seek to solve its many vexatious problems we 

 begin to comprehend how intricate are her processes and little our 

 knowledge of the governing laws of nature. " Tall oaks from little 

 acorns grow," so we must develop step by step, year by year more 

 practical methods of obtaining information from each and every 

 source attainable to make more perfect a system of rules serving to 

 assist us in performing with greater dexterity the duties devolving 

 upon us as men and women who have assumed the pleasing responsi- 

 bilities of solving a few of the concealed mysteries that excite our 

 curiosity when we try to develop fruits, flowers and vegetables in 

 their greatest perfection, adapted to a climate as variable as ours. 



