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upon "Wellsville a few days since, and while the hillsides all around 

 were furrowed and ditched by the running waters, this plot was 

 not washed in the least the torrents sank into its porous soil, were 

 caught in its reservoirs and the surplus passed off through its 

 transverse trenches without in the least disturbing its surface or 

 the crops grown thereon. 



" Brother Cole claims that by his ' New Agriculture' every kind 

 of vegetable production can be increased from five to ten fold, 

 that by it men could realize more from five or ten acres, and with 

 less labor too, than they now do from farms of hundreds of acres 

 that this fact will become rapidly apparent that 'The New Agri- 

 culture, something the world has never seen or realized before 

 has been discovered and will prevail.' If it shall in any measure 

 fulfill its early promise as shown in Mr. Cole's small experiment 

 then it ought to and will prevail. Some wise man has remarked, 

 ' He who causes two blades of grass to grow where only one grew 

 before, is a benefactor of his race' or words to that effect, and for 

 what his new idea has already established we have no hesitation in 

 saying Mr. Cole is entitled to honor and esteem as a public bene- 

 factor. His experiment has demonstrated that his new idea has at 

 least great practical value for application to every hillside and 

 slope, if not for valley and plain. He claims that it may be worked 

 with wondrous success even on what we call level lands. The cen- 

 tral idea of ' The New Agriculture' is the capturing and utilizing by 

 subterranean reservoirs and irrigation, of all the dews, rains and 

 snows for plant growth, and Mr. Cole shows in his side hill experi- 

 ment that the filtration of the water through the hardest, toughest, 

 most unpromising soil, renders it pliable and most wonderfully 

 fertile and productive." 



"VVe must not omit the report made by Mr. James McCann, 

 President, and Mr. George W. Hoffman, ex-President of the Par- 



