The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1856-02-14
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In no way can delicious and vet luxu.
r'ous food be SO abundantly, cbeaply, and
universally obtained as in the cultivation
OF fruit However hilly, rugged, and
rocky the land, although it refuse the
Ploy and The sythe, there is scarcely en-
acre in our country which will not pro.
duce good fruit ofsome kind. The marsh;
which bids defiance to cultivation with,
out expensive drainage, yields whOrtIe,
berries and cranberries, each highly val
liable in its way. The glen and noun.
taiu'slde may easily be made prolific in
The cherry, peach, rear, and apple; and
on the more favored portions of the soil,
where wheat, corn and grass, are easily
and abundanuy produced, will fruit re,
pay the room and labor in a rich reward.
II IS believed that good fruit tree will
yleld more real market and nutriliye val
ue than any other crop that can be pro-
cured from the same soil No labor of
the farmer. and no use of the soil, PAYS
more abundanuy than when applied to
the culture Of good fruit. As a tree Of
choice fruit covers no more land than q
poor one, it is of the first importance to
make the best selections, and render the
most faithful attention 10 its full develop
ment. Man does not use one half of the
quantity Of fruit that he should do as an
article Of food. Thousands Of farmers live
mainly on salt beef, pork, and fish, who
might have the luscious luxury Of fruit at
every meal, every month in the year
Besides, man is adapted in his nature to
subSist principally on a vegetable and
fruit diet, and would be far more healthy,
happy, and long-lived for SO doing. As
an article of general food. fruit in its vast
varieties is without a parallel. Our
friends, at distance from cities, will find
1t source of profit, as railroads now
bring them so near the market as to ena-
BILE them to compete with farmers in the
suburbs ofcities. We have felt keen re-
gret in travelling in different portions CT
the country to see so little attention paid
to the subject of good fruit; and have
been still more panied to see orchard for
ests OF miserable, sour, nurly apples only
tit for vinegar. Let frewood be made of
such miserable trees, or use them on
which to graft stocks of choice fruit.
The Spaniards have a maxim, that
man is ungrateful to the past generation
that planted the tree from which he eats:
and deals uniustly with the next genera
ton unless he plants the seed of that fruit.
that it may furnish food for those who
come after him. Thus when a son of
Spain eats peach or pear by the road
slde' wherever he is, he digs with his
foot in the ground, and covers the pit or
the core Consequently, all over Spain,
by The road side and elsewhere, fruit in
great abundance tempts the taste, and is
ever free. This is an easily wrought
charity, and an evidence Of noble soul.
Let this practice be initiated in our own
country, and the weary wanderer will be
blest, and bless the hand and the liberal
charity that ministered to his comfort and
Joy. We are bound to leave the world as
good, or better than We found it, and he
is selfish churl who basks under the
shadow, and eats the fruit of trees which
other hands have planted, if he will not
also plant trees which shall yield fruit to
coming generations. No young man
should vote or marry until he has plant.
ed atleast one tree as an evidence Of good
citizenship. Who planted the elms of
Boston Common, and of New Haven.
which are so justly celebrated ? Surely
not the present generation. Let fruit
trees be in like manner bequeathed, that
unborn generations may be grateful 70
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