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State Horticultural Society, and has been annually re- 

 elected since then. He has during the present year re- 

 linquished the position in consequence of his time being 

 occupied by other and more important duties. " The 

 achievement of my life," he says, " in which I take 

 most pride, is the little I have done to improve the 

 horticulture of my adopted State." A very modest 

 way of viewing a good arid useful work, and one that 

 will keep Mr. Adams' name in grateful remembrance 

 in Iowa long after he has been gathered to his fathers. 



A man of Mr. Adams' mental capacity and activity 

 could not help recognizing and investigating the evils 

 from which the farming class has suffered, and upon 

 the organization of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, 

 he at once identified himself with it as the best means 

 of remedying the defects complained of. He took an 

 active part in promoting its growth, and upon the or- 

 ganization of the Iowa State Grange, on the 12th of 

 January, 1871, was elected Master of that body. In 

 December, 1871, he was reflected for a full term of two 

 years. In January, 1872, he was chosen Master of 

 the National Grange, and resigned his position in the 

 Iowa State Grange. Upon the adoption of the Consti- 

 tution of the Order, in January 1873, at the sixth 

 annual session of the National Grange, Mr. Adams was 

 reflected Master for the full term of three years. 



The following address, delivered by Mr. Adams 

 before the Granges of Muscatine and Union counties, 

 Iowa, in October, 1872, presents him in a favorable 

 light as a speaker and thinker. We commend his 

 vigorous and well-timed remarks to the careful conside- 

 ration of the readers of these pages. He said : 



" When physicians meet in convention, as they often 



