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muscular power and of skilled labor using machines for hand labor; the development 

 of cheap sources of power ( water wheels and windmills) to produce electricity, which 

 is to be stored and transmitted as needed to different parts of the farm for plowing, 

 etc.; the improvement of pumps and other means of lifting water for irrigation; and 

 the use of electricity in the production of nitrates. "Modern improvements in agri- 

 culture will probably be, in the main, such as are based upon fundamental processes 

 unknown to the ancients. By the word 'processes' it is intended to indicate not 

 those methods the scientific reasons for which were understood — for these in ancient 

 times were very few — but simply those which from long experience were noticed to 

 be beneficial," such as rotation of crops and the enrichment of the soil by legumes. 

 A great development of irrigation is predicted, and methods of raising and applying 

 water for this purpose are discussed at some length. It is also predicted that the 

 expert in plant diseases, equipped with apparatus for fumigation on a large scale, will 

 be a person of increasing importance in the future. 



