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teachings upon the subject, or when he can be induced 

 to read good agricultural papers. As such offenders can- 

 not be made to go to farmers' meetings or to other public 

 gatherings, however, I have thought that it might be an 

 experiment worth trying to send to them agricultural 

 papers regularly. Let them understand how much of 

 work and of diflBculty there is in growing crops, what 

 the rights of the farmer are ; in short, get them inter- 

 ested in a progressive agriculture, and it appears to me 

 that some, at least, would be influenced for the better. 

 For other reasons, also, I have sometimes thought that 

 it would pay an intelligent community to circulate agri- 

 cultural papers among the poor and illiterate families. 



The attitude of a grower towards all with whom he 

 may come in. contact, will largely determine the extent 

 to which his fruit and vegetables will be pilfered. A 

 man who is universally disliked may expect to suffer. I 

 have often observed that college students, by common 

 consent, do not pilfer from a man who is always kind 

 and free-hearted, while their attitude towards a stingy or 

 disagreeable man is quite the opposite. I once knew a 

 man who placed a great picket fence about liis orchard 

 and who kept armed men in it all night, and I also knew 

 many idlers who experienced the keenest delight in get- 

 ting into that orchard. A neighbor who took no precau- 

 tions lost less fruit. In a neighboring community the 

 fruit growers posted in public places the law concerning 

 trespass, and they reported good success from the prac- 

 tice. It appears to me that there is no subject more 

 worthy of occasional discussion in farmers' clubs, in the 

 local paper, in the pulpit, in the Sunday school, than 



