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duty and the inevitable changes of social life shall draw them from 
its endearing associations. 
Farmers—if you thus measure horticulture as an important ad¬ 
junct of the farm, you will see less to appall and more to encourage 
in this work; you will reach out after the helps so abundant now ; 
you will call on Downing or Vick; on Warder or Briggs; you 
will not do without our most practical Western Farmer or some of 
its cotemporaries in the west, and you will rightly estimate the 
value of the individual and combined experience of the growing 
horticultural fraternity of our own Wisconsin. 
Yours, truly, 
J. C. PLUMB. 
THE MUTUAL DEPENDENCE OF ALL HUMAN IN¬ 
DUSTRIES. 
BY C. D. FOX, BELOIT. 
“They helped every one his neighbor, and every one said to his 
brother, be of good courage. So the carpenter encouraged the 
goldsmith, and he that smoteth with the hammer, him that smoteth 
the anvil, saying, it is ready for the solder, and he fastened it with 
a nail that it should not be moved.” That is my text. 
Here are two pictures in one, both teaching the same lesson, viz, 
mutual dependence. First, several workmen, mechanics and artisans, 
are engaged in erecting and ornamenting an edifice. The mason 
so performs his part as to accomodate the carpenter; the carpen¬ 
ter the joiner; the joiner the painter, and the painter the gold¬ 
smith. They are all in good humor and hearty, and lighten each 
other’s burdens and relieve each other’s toil by cheerful words, 
saying “ be of good courage.” “ So the carpenter encouraged 
the goldsmith.” 
The next picture is of a smithy. Walking in the lower part 
of town this morning, my attention was directed to a long range 
of low buildings with several glowing smoke stacks, and I was 
informed by a friend at my side that it was a plow factory. Let 
us go in and see what we can see, and hear what we can hear. 
There stands the foreman of the forge intently watching his fire. 
