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and energy. How many anxious hours we watched our early 

 garden, when it seemed to us that all was. lost. Persistent 

 weeding and frequent stirring the soil carried it through, if not 

 complete, to wonderful success. We can now understand the 

 advice of the Long Island market gardener, Peter Henderson : 

 " Never engage in market gardening after the age of forty." 

 The anxious hours, however, are compensated by the love for 

 our calling. It is never too late to work in the earth, for we 

 are thereby learners, and it is never too late to learn the art of 

 growing crops and the art of using them when they are grown. 

 The mastery over the forces of nature strengthen rather than 

 weaken. The farmer is the true conservative, as well as the 

 true radical. He must save, and he will go to the roof of things. 

 Fellow farmers, do not let this department languish ! Culti- 

 vate that enthusiasm which has carried it forward to its 

 present high state of perfection, and, moreover, which has 

 carried us all along in mutual love during the past ten years. 



Respectfully submitted, 



'""■ "■ GEORGE J. PETERSON, , 



^** ^''"'■"" JAMES H. WEST, J- Committee. 



i» .V ux . EDWIN REED, 



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BULLS. 



The Committee to fill a vacancy in this department of neat 

 stock would report a number of fine animals which were 

 admired by many specially interested in the improvement of 

 beef and the dairy. 



