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els lo the acre, — and 1 believe intelligent, progressive farming will yet insure 

 this, — and we have 100,000 bushels as the product of such township. In the 

 territory mentioned there are in round numbers 300 towns, thus giving us 

 30,000,000 bushels as the yearly product, or 0,000,000 busliels more than was 

 produced in tlie entire State in the year 1877. Even witli twenty bushels to 

 the acre, the yearly wheat crop would be 24,000,000 bushels, which, at a dollar 

 a bushel, would give a valuation of 824,000,000. In view of these figures, how 

 insignificant our yearly salt product appears, although now considered, and 

 justly, of so great value and benefit. Deduct from either of these quantities 

 sufficient for seed and bread, and then some of you ready reckoners give us the 

 number of car-loads that may yet pass through our cities, on its way to an 

 eastern market. 



The number of cows kept in one of our older counties, numbers about 2,000, 

 the number of sheep from 50,000 to 100,000 and upwards, the number of 

 swine 10,000, and a like number of horses. 



The butter for sale from each cow should average 150 jiounds; this would 

 give us 000,000 pounds, $125,000 in each county, or a total in seventeen coun- 

 ties of $2,040,000. 



The wool clip will average four pounds to the sheep; with 50,000 in each 

 county, at twenty-five cents per pound we would have eight hundred and fifty 

 thousand dollars. And ten thousand swine iu a county should give one million 

 pounds of pork to be marketed; this at five cents per pound would give us iu 

 the seventeen counties, eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars. 



Notice I don't mention the sale of horses; those I leave to do the work. 

 The oats, the hay, potatoes and other crops I have not included. I leave all 

 such to be used on the farm, although in fact we know such would not be the 

 case. 



What then is the result? 



A population of seven hundred thousand people. 



A yearly product of thirty million bushels of wheat. 



Twenty-five million bushels for sale at $L per bushel $25,000,000 



Butter. - 2,000. 000 



Wool 850, 000 



Pork - - _ 850,000 



$28,700,000 



Twenty-eight and a half million dollars each year! Why, it rivals your 

 lumber and salt in their palmiest days ! 



Much of the picture, you will say, I have left out. What of the value of 

 the farms, the character of the farm buildings, the highways, the schools, the 

 churches, the villages, the manufactories, in fact all the evidences of civiliza- 

 tion to be found in a rich agricultural country? 



Yes, my friends, all these things will come with the rest. I can but ask you 

 to turn your thoughts for a moment to one of our old settled agricultural 

 counties and there behold at a glance what the future here will give us, and 

 as the progress, intelligence and civilization of the nineteenth century exceeds 

 that of the eighteenth, so will the twentieth that of the present. 



In thus attempting to show you wliat we may reasonably expect, when you 

 may ask, may we look for these things, and how shall they benefit us? 



What I have said lias been upon the assumption that the people of the cities 

 on this liver have a duty to perform which they will not neglect. You can 



