THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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I'or the purpose of filling orders taken by plaintill while 
said fruit trees, plants and Jiursery stock were without 
the State of Montana, so long as plaintilT has complied or 
offers to comply with the inspection laws of the State of 
Montana; and that })laintiff do have and recover of and 
from defendants his costs and disbursements herein in¬ 
curred, taxed at.Dollars. 
Done in open couut^ July 20, 1914. 
Geo. W. Pierson, Judge. 
CO-OPERATION 
The following is an extract from Governor Glynn’s 
speech delivered at the Conference of Co-operative Farm 
Societies in Utica, N. July 22, 1914. It applies with 
equal force to nurserymen as farmers. 
“It is your duty to impress upon the members of your 
several societies, that the only way to co-operate is to co¬ 
operate. Co-operation must walk upon its own legs. 
Its only salvation is independence. When it goes tan¬ 
going into politics, flirting wdth feminism, chumming 
with pietism, and winking* at communism, destruction 
awaits it just around the corner. It is a business prop¬ 
osition pure and simple, not a tittle more, not a whit less. 
It cannot convert eailh into heaven, Utica into Utopia or 
a St. Lawrence County farm into Fifth avenue. It 
w aves no magic wand. It has no prestidigitator’s art. 
It possesses not the alchemist’s trick of turning stone into 
gold. But it does do w hat Benjamin Franklin said every 
man only had to do to become a millionaire—it takes 
care of the pennies and through this care the dollars take 
care of themselves. Extravagance may be a virtue 
among the rich. It is a crime among the poor. Thrift 
is more lucrative than luck. Efficiency is the slogan of 
the hour, and efficiency means saving from waste. Not 
long ago the w hole country was interested in saving the 
useless motions a mason makes in laying bricks. We 
have passed a Workmen’s Compensation law to save a 
waste of limb and life and energy. And by co-operation 
we propose to save for the farmer the just return for his 
labors of wdiich he is robbed by w asteful and extrava¬ 
gant methods of distribution. 
Society suffers more from waste of money than from 
w'ant of money. The sky is good, my friends, the earth 
is good; the only thing bad, the only thing 
foolish lies between earth and Heaven. Out 
of our economic conditions money is be¬ 
coming part of character and ought never to he treated 
w ith levity. Co-operation means economy, and economy 
is the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, 
and the mother of Liberty. Self-love and social love are 
one and the same. The man w ho improves himself im¬ 
proves the world. Social advancement is the conse- 
(juence of indi\idual advancement; for in the words of 
the Bible, “if any provide not for his own, and especially 
for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith and 
is worse than an inlidel.” Life is short and we ought to 
make hay while the sun shines. Those who fail to do 
so should read Addison’s “Vision of Mirzah” and get 
busy. People who cry for helj) in lile’s battle can gen¬ 
erally find it w ithin themselves if they look hard enough. 
Those who need co-o[)eration, and fail to co-operate, are 
as fanatic as the author Savage w ho decked himself out 
in a scarlet coat trimmed w ith gold lace while his naked 
toes stuck out of his shoes, and as w himsical as the poet 
Spenser wdio died from the lack of bread w bile refusing 
twenty shillings from a friend because he had no time to 
spend them. 
There is nothing new' or untried in the broad principle 
of co-operation. In the last analysis co-oj)eration is 
only another name for civilization. As John Stuart 
Mill has said “Almost all the advaidages w Inch man pos¬ 
sesses above the inferior animals, arise from his power of 
acting in combination with his fellows, and of accom¬ 
plishing by the united efforts of numbers wdiat could not 
be accomplished by the detached efforts of individuals.” 
From the dawn of history men have co-operated to secure 
the benefits of safety, progress and justice and have 
called that co-operation Government. They have united 
to produce the manifold necessities and luxuries of life 
ami have called that co-operation Industry. They have 
'talked together of the eternal mysteries, they have gath¬ 
ered together to worshii) the Supreme Being, and their 
name for this sacred co-operation is Ileligion. The great¬ 
est and most lasting undertakings of the human family 
have come in accordance w ith the Biblical injunctions 
“Bear ye one another’s burdens.” “Ye are members one 
of another.” ” 
WHAT A NURSERYMAN SEES IN HIS TRAVELS 
A visit to Gettysburg should be on every American’s 
itinerary. Until one has walked over that battlefield, 
and read the records on the monuments, and stood on the 
ground that w^as drenched with blood; one does not 
realize the magnitude of the cost by w hich the Union w as 
held together. 
It is truly sacred ground and well deserves the care 
and attention, being given it by the Government, to pre¬ 
serve it as a perpetual memorial to the sacrifice of lives 
for our national existence. 
“Under the dome of the Union sky 
The American soldier’s temple of fame.” 
While the visiting nurseryman will see much to inter- 
. est him, of course, the trees w ill claim much of his atten¬ 
tion. It is a well wooded country, and from all ac¬ 
counts has not changed a great deal, every effort being 
made to preserve the growth as it was at tlie time ol the 
battle. 
The spot know n as the High Water Vlark, the culmina¬ 
tion of Picket’s Charge, from whence the tide of rebellion 
rolled back, let us hope forever, is marked by a grove ol 
chestnut oaks enclosed by an iron Icnce. They are not 
very large and the casual observer would hardly think 
they could have been there during the battle, but men, 
who remember the liattle, will tell you they look much 
the same now as they did then. Tlie annual growth is 
very little. 
In other portions of the battlefield where it was 
thickly wooded, such as around Culp’s Hill, the trees 
bear mute evidence ol the strile. The wounds are 
healed over, but the scars are very evident, when shell 
