738 AGRICULTURE 



tions? Who has carefully studied the history of the special farm 

 literature that we already have? Who has written the biological 

 evolution progress that attaches to every domestic animal and every 

 cultivated plant? We need short and sharp pictures of the man at his 

 work and the woman in her home such quick and vivid pictures in 

 words as an artist would stroke on his canvas. There is nobility, 

 genuineness, and majesty in a man at useful work much more than 

 there is in a prince, or a general, or a society leader, whose role it is to 

 pose for the multitude. The man holding the plow, digging a ditch, 

 picking fruit, the woman sweeping or making bread what stronger 

 pictures of human interest can there be than these? If I could have 

 the choice of the mite that I should contribute to the developing and 

 the nationalizing of agricultural sentiment, I should choose its 

 literature. 



