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country. They did well to accomplish so much in so brief a time. The 
most that they could hope to realize from their first year’s toil was the 
means of subsistence for the following year, seed-grain, and a few other 
necessaries ; those more thoughtful of the future, did not fail to sow the 
seed for fruit trees, if unable to procure the trees themselves from nur¬ 
series. 
There is nothing that becomes a new farm more than a flourishing 
young orchard; too many are negligent in setting out trees from year to 
year, always intending to do it at some future time. It should be borne 
in mind that an orchard of fruit is the work of long time. Ten years in 
the prime of a man’s life passed in anticipation of setting out an orchard 
leaves him but few years in which to plant and cultivate the trees that 
are to yield him fruit in his declining years, and furnish a larger pros¬ 
pect for coming generations. This may be a source of some consolation, 
and enjoyment, but, as a wise legislator once gravely remarked in debate, 
“what has posterity ever done for us in the name of common sense, that 
such a claim be made on our generosity?” Every new farm should at 
the earliest possible time be supplied with young fruit trees. All readily 
admit it, but do not half realize the importance of it; if they did, they 
never would allow year after year to pass and not a fruit tree to grace 
their premises. They are ever ready to answer the question “ Why 
don’t you plant an orchard?”—“I must wait till I get able to set out the 
trees.” There is no excuse at the present time for not setting out 
orchards, nurseries are convenient and trees are sold at reasonable rates, 
and on easy terms. Fruit trees enhance the value of a farm at' a com¬ 
paratively trifling expense. No one observant of matters and things here 
during the present season, can have failed to note how soon the inquiry 
has been made by Eastern farmers, looking for farms in Wisconsin, 
“ Have you an orchard growing on your farm ?” It is needless to talk 
about the expense of growing fruit on a farm. I have seen, and many 
others have seen, the same farms that were commenced eight and ten * 
years since, and have not now even a currant bush growing thereon. 
How wide the contrast with a farm that has been stocked with fruit trees, 
according to the best ability of the owner—apple trees, cherry trees, pear 
trees and peach ; current bushes, raspberries, strawberries, of the choicest 
variety; and even the wild plum tree and crab apple, the fruit of which 
is by no means to be despised. Yet the real expense of all these is so 
