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in the public service. Geological and Botanical Surveys are 

 ordered of all portions of the Republic ; but their results remain 

 virtually a sealed book. Commissions are created to find out 

 why men do not work, when they have declared that they will 

 not ! Or why other some cannot, who are forcibly prevented ! 

 But disease and disaster may assail the Apple, Grape, or Peach, 

 threatening the produce of our orchards and farms in myriad 

 destructive forms, and neither Senator nor Representative move 

 for investigation, or trouble themselves to promote inquiry by 

 others. I challenge denial of the assertion that a discovery of 

 an eftectual safeguard from the yellows in the peach would be 

 worth more to the American people than all the "Protection" 

 that has ever lain like an incubus upon industrial energy, 

 stifling its free aim and action. Insure immunity from that fell 

 disease, and the pink of the peach blossom shall again tint our 

 local landscape, as in days of yore when Cooledge and Crawford 

 budded and bore their luscious harvest. Do Congress, or the 

 General Court, know or care that within the year just past the 

 very meanest apples have been quoted at from five to seven 

 dollars per barrel ? A State Tax to exterminate an insect of ex- 

 haustless fecundity — an Ocneria dispar which few have seen, and 

 which is most to be dreaded as an invader of the public treasury ! 

 A Federal million from a Saccharine Senate to stop thistle-down 

 in its flight ! But what measures of practical utility to save the 

 product of our orchards from destruction, or to guaranty the 

 existence of those very orchards against the time when man, 

 ceasing to be carnivorous, shall find nourishment and long life 

 in the fruit that, first planted in Eden, was co-eval with his orig- 

 inal existence. 



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