I06 STATE rO-MOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Right here I wish to acknowledge our indebtedness to one of 

 the orchardists of our town. ]\Ir. R. C. Fuller. To him we have 

 gone more than to any other for advice in orchard matters. 

 Although a very busy man, he has spent many half hours in 

 listening to our plans and perplexities and giving his opinion 

 and advice. He himself, as some of you know, was for a period 

 of years the owner of two orchards, one of which numbered one 

 thousand trees, set by his own hands. Although he has now 

 sold these he is still interested in orchard matters and is the same 

 kind, disinterested friend and wise counsellor as before. 



Such is the story of our experience in orcharding. There is 

 in it nothing striking or unusual. It may, however, encourage 

 some other woman into whose hands such work has been thrust. 



A WOMAN'S WORK IN BEAUTIFYING THE HOME. 

 Mrs. Kate; B. Ellis, Fairfield. 



It is said that our minds are receptive to a certain point and 

 then they refuse to receive anything more. It does seem to me 

 that tonight, after the two days' excellent meeting, after the 

 many grand, good things you have had poured into your minds, 

 your minds at this point must have ceased to be receptive. 



A few years ago I went into a school and the teacher called 

 the geography class. She called on a little girl to recite on the 

 continent of Asia. The little girl got up and with an air of 

 finality remarked : " There are three facts about Asia ; " then 

 she very coolly proceeded to give the three facts that there were 

 about Asia. Well, now, I cannot tell you tonight that there are 

 three facts to make your home beautiful, because you know, and 

 I know that there are a great many facts and a great many 

 fancies that go into the home beautiful. It is said that God 

 divided man into men that they might help each other. And if 

 there is anything that seems to us to make our home a little more 

 beautiful, it is just that one thing, that we can tell each other 

 in hopes that it may do something toward making their home 

 beautiful. 



I am going to be, perhaps you will think not courteous at first, 

 for I am going to ask you to stand with me outside the home 

 before I invite you into the house. But one of our leading 



