254 THE NEW AGRICULTURE. 



them into being, indeed; to develop them to your ideals, to 

 train them through generations and mold them to your heart's 

 desire these things were enough to arouse the interest of the 

 dullest mind. Men look at the great city and the progress 

 that is making there ; they dream of the opportunities, and 

 think of the wonderful inventions that are developed and set 

 into practical motion there and the city should, indeed, be 

 visited for its educational advantages but the creation of 

 new varieties in the agricultural world, and the control of 

 living and growing things which farm life demands, is inven- 

 tion of the highest type, is administration of no mean order, 

 and makes the man who performs this work well, albeit in a 

 circumscribed domain, a law-giver, a governor and a king. 



