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ate gains to the producer, than that they should suffer for want of 
food, that the producer may grow suddenly rich. 
Many dairymen of late years have neglected the economies of 
dairying, and it is the waste and extravagance that pinches harder 
than the low prices. He who can cut off waste and be content with 
moderate gains, will see a silver lining to the cloud, if indeed there 
be a cloud that dims the future in the far distant horizon. The 
merchants of the dairy at home and abroad are men who do honor 
to trade, and among them will be found those who would sooner 
lop off an arm than stoop to a mean action. The commercial in¬ 
tegrity of the dairy stands unsullied, and this is an element which 
helps to place American dairying upon a substantial footing. 
VEGETABLE AND FLORAL GARDENS. 
BY MRS. D. HUNTLEY, APPLETON. 
Read before The Farmers’ Industrial Association in Appleton, April, 1877. 
THE FLORAL AND VEGETABLE GARDENS 
Are both indispensable to a well arranged and properly adorned 
farmers’ home. Their size and arrangement should depend much 
■upon the amount of help on the farm and the time that can reason¬ 
ably be devoted to their culture, but on no account should the field 
crop, or the hurry of any other work, cause the total neglect of 
either fiowers or vegetables. There may not be time for any elab¬ 
orate arrangements of walks, or beds, or of ornamental modes of 
culture, but the varieties may be grown and if well cared for will 
be both pleasing and useful. If either of these gardens which add 
so much comfort to the household must take precedence, it should 
be the vegetable. The pliysical wants must first be provided for or 
there will be none to admire the ornamental. The vegetable gar¬ 
den should be near the kitchen door, where it can be seen and en¬ 
joyed by every member of the family from grandfather down to the 
youngest children. A little skill in the arrangement will make it 
very attractive. There is a good deal of real pleasure in watching 
the growth of thrifty plants. We have sometimes fancied this 
