18 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1887. 



lime ! Would any of our Trustees become candidates for Gov- 

 ernor, upon an ascetic platform ? From those Consular pages 

 they will ascertain how Alcohol is extracted from the Sweet 

 Potato, in the Azores; and may ponder upon the application, at 

 home, of that funny law of Switzerland, whereby the Helvetic 

 Republic grasps to itself the exclusive right to manufacture and 

 import liquors, peddling them at pleasure ! The Nomologist may 

 study, with advantage, the returns from Nova Scotia, which dis- 

 close the extent of the trade in Apples between that Province 

 and England ; and can thereby inform himself how formidable 

 is the rivalry wherewitli he will have to contend. If observant, — 

 he may note the confirmation of the assertion by your Secretary 

 in his latest Annual Report, that the Orchards of New England 

 could sustain the commerce of a nation. Would Conerrcss but 

 realize that there must be two parties to traffic ; that the profit 

 cannot enure to one side only; and that in the free exchange of 

 what we have to sell for that which we better buy, ample pro- 

 vision is made for cargoes both going and returning. The 

 " home-market " we have virtually monopolized : but it will not 

 consume our Apples. Great Britain is willing enough ; but she 

 wishes, like ourselves, to pay in barter. So, we let our fruit rot ; 

 we see our commerce perish ; building yachts to show what we 

 might do were trade unfettered : and continue stolidly the whole- 

 sale importation of Swedes or Armenians that " home-indnstry " 

 may be protected ! " Having eyes, see ye not ? And having 

 ears, hear ye not ? And do ye not remember " what was done 

 by Dnncan C. Pell, and his compeers of New York, in the olden 

 time ? 



"Bulletins" issued by the Agricultural College of Michigan 

 are regularly received and may also be found upon our tables. 

 They will repay your study, being based upon close observation 

 and controlled by a rigid regard for accuracy. One of the most 

 recent, — upon " Forest Products of The Museum of Economic 

 Botany;" — is a forcible exemplification of the truth that more 

 real wisdom may be latent in facts of common occurrence, that 

 are dismissed without notice because of their very frequency, 

 than in those which we cannot help observing, — since they are 

 sharply and simply obtrusive. According to " Bulletin No. 28," 



