6o STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Now we are all anxious about the boy, more than all else 

 combined. We have thoughts of leaving something to him 

 when we go over the river. How better accomplish this than 

 by setting a young orchard, and adding to it year by year, 

 cultivating it, enriching it, and having the boy interested in it 

 all times. Such an orchard increases in value and becomes 

 more productive every year, and we are sure of our opportunity 

 to leave something valuable to the boy ; surer than we can 

 possibly be in the bank account. It also adds much to the gen- 

 uine interest of the whole family upon the farm to have an 

 abundance, and to spare, of those luscious fruits of the orchard. 

 But that is not all. The small fruit comes in for a share. How 

 many farmers here in this section raise strawberries, rasp- 

 berries, blackberries, currants, and gooseberries enough to 

 furnish the family all the year around. If you do not 

 do it, what a grand change it would be to undertake 

 it in the future. What a difference it makes to the wife 

 if she has this abundance of fruit for three meals each day I 

 Not only through the berry season is this true, but in the cold 

 winter as well. No matter what it costs, fruit is a necessity m 

 the home and will pay for itself many times over. It will help 

 to keep the doctor from the door. It will help to make the child 

 pleased and satisfied with the home. 



What are you living for? A man told me the other day, that 

 he was living to get a little bread to eat. God forbid that any of 

 us should be living simply to eat. Let us eat to live! Let us 

 have some thoughts higher, nobler, and grander, than simply 

 to accumulate the almighty dollar. Get something out of life as 

 you go along. It is not the man who accumulates the most 

 wealth who is the richest. Let us go home from this meeting, 

 determined that as for us, let others do as they may, we will 

 take better care of the orchard, produce better fruit, and make 

 the household happy. 



