48 THE NEW AGRICULTURE. 



" This is a goodly land, I said mentally, and yet, without water 

 it seems much like a place we read about, in no sense attractive. 

 There was no end to my dreams. How can these great seams in 

 the rocks be sealed ? was the question uppermost in my mind. 

 These streams so abundant in flow along smooth rocky channels, 

 I said mentally, in spring and autumn, are fearful to contemplate 

 as found amid the fervors of the summer solstice. Great rains 

 would come in ordinary seasons, lasting at times for days in mid- 

 summer, and in three days time no desert was ever more dry. 

 Here, in favorable seasons, was grown that wonderful white wheat 

 we used to see in our boyhood, eclipsing that, if possible, grown in 

 the valley of the far-famed Genesee. 



" This was the school, added to a few lessons learned in Michigan, 

 then just admitted into our Union as a state, where I studied geol- 

 ogy and geography, physics, physiology, botany and other sciences 

 without number in their application to the constitutions of men 

 and animals, plants, trees, grasses, grains and all else of life in its 

 multitudinous forms and phases. 



" And all along since I have studied on, and reached conclusions 

 and demonstrated them as follows: 



" 1. The Father gives us the rains and dews and frozen waters 

 in copious abundance, nor need any of the sons and daughters of 

 men, nor beasts of the field, or fowl, or fish, or flesh in any form, 

 nor so much as the grass beneath our feet want for food and drink. 



" 2. Man, made but little lower than the angels, and monarch as 

 he is of earth, has the ability to gather up the waters in store to be 

 used as wanted, controlling their flow as they make their ways 

 adown to the seas, and in facile direction so conduct them in cur- 

 rents as to make their tracks the ways of pleasantness and paths of 

 peace, at the same time furnishing fruitions to earth's inhabitants 

 in basket and store of measureless abundance. 



