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GIVE PROFITAIJLE L.VIiOIi TO ALT. YOUR PEOPLE. 



Depend not upon the coolies of China or the peo]ilo of Europe, until all yonr people, 

 of whatever color, condition, or capacity, have full employment for mind and muscle 

 in developing the wonderful capabilities under your control. 



The jiractical question of the day is not. Where shall we procure more labor? but, 

 rather. How can we utilize and i)rolitably emjdoy the varied capacities, tastes, and 

 inventive powers of every individual of our i)resent pojiulatiou ? What can each 

 accomplish with the best results? What can be done for the employment of men prac- 

 ticed in no skillful employment? What for indigent women, and even childreu, 

 dependent upon their own exertions for subsistence, for an education and advanced 

 social positions? The State that furnishes employment for every son and daughter, 

 labor suited to every capacity and taste, heavy toil for the unskilled and i)]odding, 

 dextrous and delicate manipulation for the artistic, effort with soul in it for the intel- 

 lectual, will become instinct with life, energy, progress, wealth, and contentment. 

 Then labor will be cheerful, toil a pleasure, and its beneficent results enhanced beyond 

 the highest expectation. Such results can never follow the practice of a few rude 

 industries. 



It is only a truism to say that the wealth of a country is the aggregate of its labor 

 beyond its requirements for subsistence; yet the truth of the saying is not sufficiently 

 realized. The largest results in accumulation can, therefore, only be obtained by 

 securing the best and most effective efforts of every individual. All must unite, then, 

 and, with heart and will, mind and muscle, contribute to the great end of enriching, 

 beautifying, and blessing this glorious land. 



I am satisfied that a new era is dawning; that the rule of one idea is weakening; 

 and that the diversification of production has already commenced, opening a career of 

 activity and a ^^sta of beauty unwitnessed in the brightest days of this nation. 



EXPERIMEis'TS WITH DEPAETME^^T SEEDS. 



William X. Byers, editor of the Eocky Mountain News, publislied at 

 Denver, who has distributed samples of Department seeds, and collated 

 results of experiments, sends the following statements : 



From Thomas Skerritt ; farm six miles south of Denver, on upland 

 prairie, one mile east of Platte Eiver. The ground has been under cul- 

 tivation five years ; never sub-soiled or manured. 



No. 1. Ears of large yellow corn ; planted May 15 ; plowed three 

 times ; irrigated three times ; ripe September 1 to 10 ; field of eight 

 acres : yield, 56 bushels per acre. 



No. 2^^ Morton white potatoes ; specimens six by three inches; planted 

 about May 15; plowed and irrigated three times; ripe October 1 ; yield, 

 250 bushels per acre. 



No. 3. White winter Touzelle wheat, from France, through the De- 

 partmeut of Agriculture; sowed in November 1SG9, so late that it did 

 not come up until spring; irrigated twice; ripe August 15; from the 

 small quantity grown is satisfied that it Mill yield over 40 bushels per 

 acre. 



No. 4. White spring wheat, sowed early in March ; irrigated three 

 times ; harvested August 1 ; 17 acres gave 30 bushels per acre. After 

 coming up in March, it was considerably injured by frost, "the first 

 time I have known such a thing to occur in Colorado." 



No. 5. A single white potato, from the Platte Valley, twenty-five miles 

 north of Denver ; size, about G by 3J inches, and very firm ; grown on 

 bottom land, without irrigation ; yield, 250 bushels per acre. 



No. 6 to 12, inclusive, are from tl>e farm of Peter Magnes, seven miles 

 south of Denver, on the east side of the Platte, part in bottom and 

 part ill upland. Altitude above the sea, about 5,300 feet. His farm has 

 iDeen well cultivated for twelve years, and some portions of it have 

 probably received a small quantity of manure. 



