THE NEW AGRICULTURE. 45 



Along the Croton River and its tributaries in many places are 

 drains which discharge their contents into the water. A condensed 

 milk factory at Brewster's, containing 100 hands, and another at 

 Purdy's containing 75, discharge their refuse into the water, and 

 the offal of a slaughter house at Brewster's goes the same way. 

 Other cases of a similar nature on a smaller scale are told of in the 

 report." 



During our remarks, we made use of the following language. 



" While an attempt to trace my lines of thought, examination and 

 investigation into the laws governing the movement of the waters 

 over, along, through and beneath soils, ultimating at length in my 

 discoveries, would doubtless weary my audience, I may be permit- 

 ted to read the following communication made to the Farmers' 

 Club of Elmira in confession of my obligations to that body for 

 generous treatment received during a discussion of the merits of 

 my system. 



HOME ON THE HILLSIDE, WELLSVILLE, N.Y., JULY 31, 1884. 

 To THE FARMER'S CLUB, OF ELMIRA, N. Y. 



" I address you through the Husbandman to express my gratitude 

 and profound appreciation of the compliments so unexpectedly 

 paid me by a body whose proceedings I have been for years noting 

 with deep interest. 



" I have been quite generally presumed to be one who cares little 

 for any matter outside of politics, and the tone of your expressions 

 while discussing the question of questions with me, not merely at 

 the present but all along through my life, touches my heart in a 

 way I scarcely know how to sufficiently express. 



" In no boastful spirit do I point to the facts connected with my 

 lineage as found epitomized in an article in the Free Frets, copies 

 of which I send. From earliest childhood, two passions have 

 seemed to rule with me, the hatred of oppression and correspond- 



