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scientific class of men there is, if they only knew it ; and 

 they are certainly the most artistic. We admire a man who 

 can paint a fine horse or a fine cow ; we say he is an artist and 

 a genius : and we admire the man who can take a chisel and 

 hew out a cow, a horse, or a man, and we look at the statue 

 with wonder : we are suprised to think that any man could 

 make such an animal as that out of stone. Now, Mr. Chair- 

 man, here is the breeder of the cow, of the pig, of the sheep, 

 or whatever animal j^ou want to breed. That man has that 

 animal pictured in his mind : it is his ideal ; and he goes to 

 work to produce it, has succeeded in producing it, and will 

 do better things yet ; and, when he has done that, he has 

 made it, not out of stone, nor put it on canvas, but he has 

 made it out of flesh and blood, and he has endowed that ani- 

 mal with the property of transmitting its own form, its own 

 shape, its own color, to its progeny. 



No one of you would buy an Essex pig of me, if there 

 were any white hairs on it: you would demand that it 

 should be perfectly black. If I had some Berkshire pigs, 

 and you came to my place to buy them, and did not find the 

 white snout, the white toes, and a little white spot on the 

 shoulder, you would say they were not pure bred : so it is 

 with every other class of animals. Now, what class of men 

 is there that stands higher in an artistic point of view than 

 the agriculturists ? Capt. Moore is a very modest man. 

 He says he does not want to be understood as farming on 

 scientific principles. I have been wondering how he was 

 going to get out of it, — which way he would turn to get away 

 from that science which underlies the whole thing. I believe 

 he has got at the bottom of the matter in regard to corn. 

 You have got to have an ideal in your own mind of what you 

 want, and you cannot impart that ideal to any other man, 

 because it is the fruit of your own brain, and not of another 

 man's brain, and you have got to make an exact picture on 

 another man's brain and another man's imagination, before 

 you can get that man to obtain it for you. But Capt. Moore 

 goes to work himself ; and he gets the onion he wants, and he 

 gets asparagus of the color and size he wants. He says he 

 has not reduced it to practice ; but he gives a system for get- 

 ting seed-corn which I venture to say is the right one. Now, 

 he may have his eighth of an acre just for the purpose of 



