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and see the labours of successful growers, and away 
on other occasions to the western and other interesting 
lands under culture. 
(b) He will not be likely to place dependence on only one or 
two leading items of produce, ‘not have all his apples 
in one basket.” He will have, and needs to have, a 
variety, and, besides, will not fail to supplement his 
earnings by stock, the fowl-yard, &c. 
(c) No doubt he will be on the alert re industrial plants, 
especially after a visit to the Economic Museum, 
Botanic Gardens ; will grow them experimentally at 
first, but will be quite sure of his market, asking “ Can 
I find a buyer in the colony or out of it?” If an affir- 
mative answer comes to hand these plants will, no 
doubt, in a supplementary way yield him much and 
profitable satisfaction. 
(d) How about his settling in life? (You may well ask if 
this properly belongs to my subject.) Let him be 
patient ; his selection will teach him that. Will she 
help him? Perhaps so, and after all, prove more 
enthusiastic than himself; and thus cause the ex- 
clamation of many years ago by a Highton labourer, 
about the knowing rooster’s opinion of his mistress, 
to come true in her case also :— 
“He crowed aloud, did Chanticleer, 
The missus, she is master here !” 
Women’s rights, you observe, may even be practised in a rural 
kind of way and place, but they cannot be more effectually exerted 
than by the mother bringing up her children (of course with the 
primary help of the father) to love a country life with its usually 
pleasing associations. 
Norr.—The address was accompanied by several drawings, among 
which were— 
(1) A charcoal kiln, internal form. 
(2) A charcoal kiln, external form. 
(3) The Cranberry (Oxycoccus palustris). 
(4) The Whortleberry (Vaccintum myrtillus). 
These were intended to illustrate some auxiliary sources of revenue. 
