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dred pounds of additional muscle, in his present business, which 

 would be only a burden. He wants now a sharp wit. When labor- 

 saving machines -shall be put fully into operation, there will be 

 less muscular work required, and if you are not prepared to do the 

 work of planning and contriving, you will be driven to the wall. ' 

 To do that work you must be prepared by a systematic course of 

 living; not by food that makes muscle only, but by what makes up 

 the whole system. 



Mr. Mills, of Bangor. I never felt more highly gratified by 

 anything to which I have listened, than by the remarks of the first 

 speaker this evening — not only by the way in which he claimed 

 that agriculture should be studied, but also by the picture which 

 he drew of the future. I believe that in the future, instead of bone 

 and muscle, we shall be able to get our bread through the agency 

 of machinery ; and that the present is as far behind what the future 

 will be, as the present is in advance of the century past. When 

 I look back and see the implements that our grandfathers used, 

 and look at those we use now, I see a progress almost marvellous. 

 The progress that has been made since the war in this direction 

 has been so great that I can carry on my farm almost as well as I 

 could when not more than thirty years old, with all the strength I 

 had then, and all the help I could get. I have sometimes queried 

 whether the improvement in farm implements has not made up for 

 all the destruction caused by the war. It led mechanics to study 

 the wants of the farmer, so that he is now supplied with such im- 

 plements as he never had before. 



Mr. Bartlett. I beg pardon. I supposed that every individual 

 who heard the lecturer was fully competent to appreciate the facts 

 brought out; and I was highly gratified with the systematic way 

 in which he brought them to our attention. I was only combatting 

 the conclusions he seemed to reach in regard to the changing of 

 this world from bad to worse. The suggestions that he made in 

 regard to farming I certainly would not oppose in the least. They 

 were excellent. 



Dr. Henry Botnton, of Woodstock, Vt., having been called upon 

 said: I am here at the end of a day and night of travel, to share in 

 the benefits of this occasion, and though somewhat weary with my 

 journe}^, I cannot but embrace the opportunity to speak for one 

 moment upon this subject, which interests me, and which I have 

 no doubt must interest every gentleman in the hall, after the man- 

 ner in which it has been presented to us this evening. 



