live stock, another on implements. Not a discouraging word comes from the father, 

 but all that he says is encouragement, and what is the consequence ? Those sons be- 

 come attached to country life, and have no desire to change their condition. Good 

 breeding, good manners, are taught in that home, so that when the sons .and the 

 daughters associate in company they do not feel awkward and out of their place. 

 Books are read, papers are perused in long winter evenings, and above all, that best of 

 books, the Bible, finds the hrst place in that family and in the heart of each of its 

 members. They are a family of Christians, and Christianity brings contentment and 

 peace in every home circle." 



A picture, the reverse of this in every particular, was drawn, but the observation 

 and experience of each will readily suggest the lineaments of it. The address then 

 proceeds:— "Let me reiterate, then, what I would advise all farmers to do. Encourage 

 your sons into a more scientific system of farming. Countenance them, by every 

 means in your power, to form higher and more ennobling views of farming. Don't 

 compel j'our boys to work from week in and week out, from sunrise to sundown, at 

 hard drudgery. Have your fruit orchards and your fruit gardens, your tool house, 

 and your live stock, plenty of good reading, and good things to eat ; make an associate 

 of your beys ; bend to tjiem occasionally, and give up to some of their desires, instead 



of riding rough-shod over them." 



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" There is nothing, my friends, that will make the attachments for home and the 

 f arm more endearing and binding than to have it surrounded with plenty of fruit — 

 and why is it that so few farmers have such a poor assortment — especially of what are 

 termed the small fruits ? Let me just give you the answers that I have heard time 

 after time When I put this question to the farmer : — " We have n't the time to attend 

 to them,' and besides it is top puttering work." Now, I admit, that as a class, the 

 farmers are not ' lazy,' (I don't refer to that class of farmers who have drift sand that 

 is so poor that it will not grow white beans, and that the more of it you have the poorer 

 you are.) I believe that as a class they overwork. The great trouble with the farming 

 community is, they are constantly grasping for more land. Theyare working- for 

 more property, and by so doing making slaves of themselves and their family. There 

 is no necessity for their doing so. They should look to the comforts and enjoyment of 

 life more. They should take a certain portion of their time to grow these luxuries, 

 and after they had had one year's experience in having their table supplied with these 

 most delicious fruits they could not be prevailed upon to go without." 

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" "What farmer is there but can find near his house a piece of ground of one, two, 

 or three acres, on which' he would like to plant potatoes or beans. .Th'ese things are 

 generally planted out in rows three to three and a half feet apart. Now, suppose on 

 one side of this plot of ground, and nearest the house, he gets out a row or two of 

 standard and dwarf pears, a few cherry, plum, and peach trees, (we, of course, calcu- 

 late that he has an apple orchard.) These trees are set in rows eighteen, twenty-four 

 and thirty feet apart, as the different kinds may require. A furrow is plowed these 

 distances, and the trees set in the same, the proper distance apart. Now plow out fur- 

 rows between them one foot apart, and in them set your gooseberries, currants, and 

 blackberries, say three feet apart in the row, 'and also in the rows in which the trees 

 are planted. Also plow out furrows and set strawberry plants, say three or four rows, 

 simply placing the plants as fast as a boy can drop them against the land side of the 

 furrow, one foot apart, and drawing in dirt with one hand against them. Now you 

 have them set out, just let your boys, when they cultivate your potatoes, pass through 

 the trees and small fruits at the same time, and when you have run them through thus 

 you will scarcely miss the labor you bestow on them." 



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" Again, I hear farmers say it is too much trouble to keep raspberries and black- 

 trmes within bounds, and as for staking them, it is impossible Now it is the 

 simplest thing in the world. Just let them grow the first season without an V trim- 

 ming, (although it is better to nip off the tip when they get one to two feet ; hteh ) 

 and the next winter pass over them and cut them back at least one half of the growth 

 The next season you have your com knife sharp, and when they get three to f our feet 

 m height, pass over the rows and cut them back to two feet. These will soon form a 

 mass of lateral branches, which can be cut back to within two feet of the main stalk 

 cut oft the suckers close to the ground through the winter, as you mav have the time' 

 that stow out between the rows, although it is better to do it through the summei 



