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highly flavored apples for culinary use, should not 

 be forgotten. How many pounds of sugar would 

 be saved in a family per year, by a constant use of 

 such rich fruit as the Tallman Sweeting, the Fall 

 Pippin, and the Spitzenburgh, for cooking, which 

 have been found cheaper for this very reason, at 

 thirty cents a bushel, than others commonly known 

 as " cooking apples" merely, at ten cents a bushel. 

 It may perhaps strike some as a reason for doubt- 

 ing the preceding estimates, that if such profitable 

 returns may be had, more people would, as a mat- 

 ter of course, have engaged in the business. But 

 this inference is by no means correct. From the 

 general neglect of cultivation, bearing trees are 

 looked upon as the result almost of a man's life 

 time ; and many, reasoning perhaps as he did, 

 who asked, " Why work for posterity what has 

 posterity done for ns ?" unwittingly punish them- 

 selves instead. Slow and sure profits, are mostly 

 set aside for immediate results. The future is too 

 often eclipsed by the present. Benefits at a dis- 

 tance, give procrastination a thousand times stronger 

 foot-hold than those close at hand. Hence the l{ 

 reason so many, in their eagerness for present 

 gain, exclude entirely the claims of the future, and 

 neglect what may certainly at some time prove 

 highly beneficial. 



