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FRUIT FOR GENERAL CULTIVATION— YOUTHS' AG. SOCIETY. 



FRUITS KECOMMENBED FOB GENFEAL CULTIVA- 

 TION BY THE CHAMPLAIN VALLEY HOKT. SOC'Y. 



RASPBERRIES. 



Red Antwerp, Knevett's Giant, 



Yellow Antwerp, Fastolff. 



Franconia, 



STRAWBERRIES. 

 Large Early Scarlet, Ross' Phcenix, 



Hovey's Seedling, Swainstone Seedling. 



Jenney's Seedling, 



Grow more Fruit. — " Consider," says a commit- 

 tee's report, " even here at home in Livingston coun- 

 ty, how numerous is that class who are greater stran- 

 gers to a Seckel or Bartlett pear, than they are to 

 the lemons and oranges of Cuba; and how many are 

 longing for that which is beyond their reach, while 

 at their very doors the soil is lying idle for them to 

 plant and cultivate a better variety of fruits than 

 ever the tropics produced; and with the help of a 

 good cellar, not a day in the year need the farmer be 

 without a choice variety of fruit.' ' 



YOUTHS' AGEICULTUEAL SOCIETY. 



Few letters we have received of late have given us 

 more pleasure than the following from a young friend 

 in Ohio. We would that many others would do like- 

 wise, and that youths' agricultural societies were 

 found all over our land. There may be other socie- 

 ties of a similar character in other States, and if so, 

 we shall be pleased to hear from them. 



" Noticing, in the Farmer for October, that you 

 wished your subscribers to send any information or 

 hints on our noble calling, I send you the following 

 history of an agricultural society which has been in 

 existence since 1850, and is conducted by young men, 

 or rather, juveniles under 21 years of age (none over 

 that age being allowed luU membership). Their 

 annual exhibition took place last month, in the vil- 

 lage of Cheviot, and notwithstanding the inclement 

 weather, they made an exhibition that they may well 

 be proud of Both fruits and vegetables were ea- 

 ceedingly fine, and the handiwork of the ladies was 

 especially admired. 



But to return to my subject The Greene Town- 

 ship Agricultural Society was organized in the 

 autumn of 1850, by five boys. They held their first 

 exhibition in a small cottage, and the total number 

 of members was 15. The nest year they built a 

 booth for their increasing wants, 40 by 18 feet. This 

 year (1852) they had G5 members. Finding that 

 their booth was not large enough to accommodate 

 them, they built for their next exhibition a booth in 

 the shape of a cross, 100 by 80. They stiU use the 

 same tent, putting it up and taking it down them- 

 selves every year. This year their member list shows 

 125 names, and they are now starting a library for 

 the use of the society. 



Now, Mr. Editor, can you show another such soci- 

 ety in your editorial realm. The Greene Township 

 Agricultural Society is an honor to the members and 

 community. Conducted by young men, as that soci- 

 ety is, I think it can not but improve and make them 

 better able to take the places of their fathers; for it 

 is to young men that this country must look to see 

 carried out the more enhghtened principles of agri- 

 culture. I would advise young men in other places 

 to form such societies; and, my word for it, they will 

 never be sorry for so doing. 



A. ROSSILLT. 



Cheviot, Hamilton Co., Ohio, Oct., 1855." 



