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has shown that Nature has erected no inexorable bar- 

 rier in the way of such a yield, and that therefore 

 how soon it will be reached must depend upon the 

 skill and ingenuity and perseverance of man. 



From these and like considerations it is rendered 

 more than probable that some of our thoughtful and 

 progressive cultivators will yet reach a product suf- 

 ficiently in advance of any hitherto recorded to mark 

 an epoch in corn husbandry. 



Whoever the farmer may be that shall first obtain 

 such a yield, if he shall reach it by a method so sound 

 and systematic as to repeat its results, and at the same 

 time reduce the cost of production in a reasonable pro- 

 portion, he will announce to the world an era of 

 cheaper living, and will deserve to be ranked with the 

 benefactors of mankind. He will increase the money 

 value of every acre of land in thp country, and aug- 

 ment the swelling tide of immigration by sending 

 across the Atlantic a new and louder note of invita- 

 tion that will fall like pleasant music on the ears of 

 toiling millions, kindling in their minds bright visions 

 of future comfort and plenty in the land of Washing- 

 ton and Lincoln. 



