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Prof. Porter. I think he would have no trouble, especially if 

 he is backed up by that »State aiipropriatioii. of one thousand 

 dollars. We can ask this action to be taken. 



As I understand it this is a joint meeting of the Horticultural 

 Society and the Amber Cane Association, and I would ask if it 

 "would not be proper for a certain number of copies of the pro- 

 ceedings of the meeting to be furnished to the members of the 

 Amber Cane Association, for distribution among the members'! 

 I would move that fifty copies of the transactions be furnished 

 to the officers of that organization, to be distributed among their 

 members. 



The motion was adopted. 



Mr. Harris was then called upon to read a paper upon market 

 gardening and proceeded to read the same. The following is 

 the paper : 



MAEKET GAEDENmG. 



BY JOHN S. HARRIS. 



Farming in some of its forms is the leading and essential occu- 

 pation of at least one- half of the laboring and producing popu- 

 lation of the "Great ISTorthw^est," and is the basis of the wealth, 

 power and prosperity of the American people. Whatever les- 

 sens its dignity in the minds of the people tends to demoralize 

 the nation, and whatever adds to its dignity makes so much 

 more rapid and certain our advance in national wealth and great- 

 ness. It was the original and divinely appointed calling of man 

 which places the farmer before kings and lords, merchants and 

 artizans, soldiers and sailors, and he still feeds them all. We 

 read in Holy Writ that "God planted a garden in Eden," and 

 made it the first man's duty to dress and keep it. When driven 

 from Eden it was still his duty to till the soil and eat his bread 

 in the sweat of his brow. From that time down through every 

 generation to the present, agriculture has been the basis of all 

 progress, and to day the hope of our race hangs upon its pros- 

 perity. It is the lever that moves the world. 



We often hear it remarked that any man having sufficient 

 muscle is good enough for a farmer, but those who make the re- 

 mark speak disrespectfully of earth's noblemen and slander their 

 own mother, for the writer, the poet, the craftsman, the miner, 

 the doctor, and the preacher all are creatures of agriculture, and 

 the farmer must feed them all. To do this successfully requires 



