50 THE XEW AGBICULTTJKE. 



" By way of encouragement, let me say therefore, that the con- 

 clusions which seem to have been reached by your club are those 

 arrived at by Hon. William M. White, President of our State Agri- 

 cultural Society, Hon. Warner Miller, Chairman of the Committee 

 on Agriculture of the United States Senate, General Benjamin But- 

 terworth, Commissioner of Patents, Hon. Henry M. Teller, Secre- 

 tary of the Interior, and, if I am correctly informed, Hon. Geo. B. 

 Loring, Commissioner of Agriculture, and hundreds of others, as 

 eminent in all ways as the most notable in our land. 



"In conclusion, let me say that, all I have claimed can be done, 

 and most of it has been done and demonstrated by myself ; the re- 

 sults are so wonderful in all ways as to incline me to shrink from 

 their enumeration and specification, and yet here is an epitome. 



"Waters having descended their incline, however impregnated 

 or discolored at their sources, reach the level of the streams in 

 purity, having left all behind in their track adapted to the develop- 

 ment of plant growth. 



"The stones, sticks and all else in the soil inducing fungus 

 growths at the roots of plants being removed and placed deep 

 down in the trenches, and manures having been so composted with 

 lime, ashes, salts and other fermentizing and assimilating agencies 

 as to prevent germination of seeds, and completely destroying the 

 seed of fungus, every root of every plant will be free from disease, 

 and perfect stalks, buds, blossoms and fruit follow, and health 

 coming at all stages of growth, it is transmitted beyond to the 

 consumer not merely, but to the seeds and germinations of future 

 plant growths. 



"Stagnation of waters nowhere occurring, health rather than 

 decay and death will be found in the track of the waters. The 

 potatoe rot will be conquered, wire worms and the small grub 

 eating the white roots of vegetation will largely if not wholly dis- 



