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never was and never will be opened. But of choice fniit, 

 carefully and neatly selected and preserved, when and where has 

 the supply for any considerable period, exceeded the demand ? 

 Whatever is intrinsically excellent and properly preserved, is 

 always suitably appreciated and liberally paid for — the infe- 

 rior articles, those only will buy who must, or can do no better. 

 The superior all will buy at a remunerating price, who can 

 purchase. Who ever failed to sell a firkin of first rate butter, at 

 a first rate price ? And who ever sold a frowy firkin, known to 

 be such, at any price at all, except to one who could purchase no 

 other ? It is the excellence of a thing, useful or agreeable be- 

 cause of its excellence, which introduces it into universal use, 

 and ultimately gives it a place among those necessaries of life, 

 without which people no more think of living, than without 

 cotton and woollen fabrics, flour and meal. Universal use se- 

 cures it against redundancy, or the supply exceeds the demand 

 no oftener than the demand exceeds the supply ; — so that in 

 closing the account, the excesses on the one side exactly bal- 

 ance those on the other. 



Anxious as he who addresses you is for the advancement of 

 fruit culture, and rejoicing as he does that it has roused the at- 

 tention of many of his fellow citizens, he would on no account 

 withdraw the attention of this society from grazing and tillage 

 husbandry, — objects which have merited and received for so 

 long a period its fostering cherishment and supervision. This 

 is neither necessary nor desirable. By a judicious division of 

 labor, every department of human industry, deriving its support 

 and profits from the soil, can be successfully pursued. The 

 relative position and value of the several departments, should 

 be clearly ascertained and studiously preserved. They should 

 all go abreast. In this way only is the line kept strong and 

 unbroken. They should give aid to each other ; this can be 

 given only by moving on, shoulder to shoulder. The relative 

 value and all the uses of the products of each should be dis- 

 covered. 



The farmer might well enquire whether the products of his 

 fruit yard, are not as sweet and as refreshing to the tenants of 

 his stall, as to the workmen who feed at his table. Whether 



