110 THE NEW AGRICULTURE. 



agency. Not only "NVellsville but Friendship, Cuba, Bolivar, Rich- 

 burg 1 , Allentown, Genesee and others of our Allegany county towns 

 in the state of New York are being supplied with it, but Pitts- 

 burgh and numberless other cities and towns of Pennsylvania, 

 Ohio and West Virginia, have been, and are being, made recipients 

 of its blessings. No fuel compares with it, nor is any provision of 

 the Creator of greater benificence. Discovery of its existence, to a 

 greater or less extent, is being made in all parts of our country, 

 and so soon as the inhabitants of colder and more inhospitable 

 regions find out that they have only to dip down with the drill, 

 and bring up from the cold clods of earth a fire which burns night 

 and day, comforting many of the inhabitants of earth, there will 

 be less digging for gold, and more for golden opportunities. 



Let nobody wait, however, for gas developement in order to ap- 

 ply our system as a substitute for the greenhouse. Coal and 

 wood are abundant in most portions of our country, and these can 

 be used for heating water with which to warm the stone in the 

 trenches. 



