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ting a position beside their fences. It seems to me there is noth¬ 
ing so tends to increase the real value and the beauty of the land¬ 
scape. as living trees beside the highway, and that we ought to 
have the power, and we ought to exercise it, to restrain the cutting 
down of trees that grows by the side of the road. These trees tend 
to protect the traveler in the summer from the hot rays of the sun, 
and the cold blasts of winter. 
Mr. Plumb: This convention has rather unintentionally dropped 
into a channel which I take special interest in, and the paper that 
Mr. Seymour read brought to my mind the thought that he is with 
me. The cultivation and development of rural taste must grow 
with our growth. There must be a beginning of these things. 
Farmers as a rule are impatient of results. They want a tree to 
bear fruit immediately; they want an evergreen to be planted out, 
and at once have all the force of an evergreen of a dozen vears. 
Their whole idea of a demand for immediate results is against true 
rural taste. Oar trees must grow. I desire to watch them and see 
them grow up the same as my children. When this idea of the 
beauty, of growth, and development, and the nurturing and care 
which the planter has, becomes established in the mind, then rural 
taste will be just as natural as the love for dollars and cents; and this 
is the thought that I wish to impress: When we can teach our chil¬ 
dren to plant a tree, and take care of it, they will be lovers of rural 
beauty and scenery, and they will love to plant trees; love to ex¬ 
periment. We are too impatient for the result. We must get this 
love of the growth and development of a tree into the minds of our 
children, and beneficial results will follow. 
Mr. Clark, of Rock county: I don’t want to occupy much time, 
but simply refer to some facts within my knowledge which I 
would have advanced after the reading of the paper previous to 
the last, but I thought perhaps you might want to take up the 
paper for discussion. The papers upon grass refer to various things? 
cows, and the raising of turnips, etc. I think we have got to accom¬ 
modate ourselves to our climate and our situation. My opinion is 
that if we undertake to raise thirty acres of turnips, or any amount 
of turnips, we would fail four years at the least calculation out of 
the five; we would not get any crop. Our winters are not like 
English winters, or other winters where we could feed these turnips. 
Another fact in regard to cows, and the different grades, and breeds, 
