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chanical forces and machinery. It is by the action of 

 those forces and the powers of nature, where they can 

 be controlled, that the greatest abundance of all that 

 enters into the use and consumption of man may be 

 produced with the least amount of physical toil. At 

 the same time a perfection of product is achieved, in 

 many things, that was not before attainable. 



Hence, the development of mills, and factories, and 

 workshops, completely furnished with the most per- 

 fect appliances of the age, are in the right direction. 

 The fault has been, heretofore, in the abuse of their 

 use. So with agricultural implements. They are all 

 required in the full development of that industry. 

 Those great machines that have been heretofore de- 

 scribed as being in use on the bonanza farms, are by 

 no means unavailable to the small farmer. When 

 they shall have discovered that line fences are not 

 necessary, but that their elds may be best cultivated 

 when the greatest facility for passage from one farm 

 to another is attained, and neighbors hold and culti- 

 vate their lands like friends rather than enemies, they 

 will also learn that the great agricultural implements 

 may be held in partnership, and be effectively worked 

 by simple systems of cooperation. 



