40 THE NEW AGRICULTURE. 



ing love of liberty, and the desire to see our mother earth restored 

 to a condition akin to the one pictured of Eden. 



" Do not misunderstand me. I would not see earth made a gar- 

 den by the hand of the Father, but holding as I do that work is 

 worship, I would have the worship on the part of the children go 

 on, till nations becoming families and families dwelling each under 

 its own vine and fig tree, shall make home, with the farm and gar- 

 den, an Eden of love the world over. 



" For this disposition, and what I have done and am doing in the 

 direction suggested, I am entitled to neither honor nor riches. 

 Riches I have not gotten, but honor has come at last, not in the 

 way the world counts it, as a rule. But your club seems to be im- 

 pressed with the conviction that, to make money, I would not have 

 recourse to deception. I surely would not, since I could not and 

 be myself. 



" I have, indeed, found the way to the new agriculture so fitly 

 denominated by one of your most eminent members, Mr. C. H. 

 Lewis. Nor the way only. Yes, I have found the thing itself, and 

 no possible escape from it. 



" If I should make money out of my discoveries it will come good, 

 and will be used, beyond the comforts and becoming adornments 

 of home, to do good in all ways. 



" I sought the patent, not to place an embargo on the glebe, but 

 as an incentive to improvement of the glebe. 



" I was but a boy in the summer of 1838, when, amid distresses, 

 not merely of business, but of drought almost without precedent, 

 I travelled on foot over a large portion of Ohio, canvassing for a 

 little horticultural and agricultural monthly, the " Buckeye Plough- 

 boy," on more than one occasion sleeping in the open air, eating 

 fruit by the way, and shelling out the wheat, eating it, doing the 

 grinding with my then young and firm teeth. 



