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millions more whose work time is the night, thus by swelling the 

 already colossal dimensions of our wealth ; if these shall Boycote 

 this devil of surplus wealth, I shall be thankful and think the millen- 

 nium is at hand. 



Surely, the wiser time shall come 



When this fine over plus of might, 



No longer sullen, slow and dumb 



Shall leap to music and to light. 



In that new childhood of the world, 



Life itself shall dance and play, 



Fresh blood through Times shrunk veins be hurled 



And labor meet delight half way. 



Never did our own honored and nation honoring Lowell sing better 

 than that. But we must conclude with one thought more, a brief 

 reference to the ability to successfully manage a farm. 



The farm was once the great mauufacturing establishment of the 

 country. The farmer raised, or made almost everything he used. 

 But now, in a still higher sense, the farm is the grandest manufactur- 

 ing establishment in the world, manufacturing the most wonderful 

 articles. It is a place where all coarse materials, grass, corn, wheats 

 rye, oats, potatoes, beets, turnips, carrots, weeds, dirt and offals, are 

 worked up into beef, pork, mutton, lard, tallow, butter, cheese, 

 calves, chickens, horses, lambs r wool ; into trotting muscle, into run- 

 ning muscle, into draught muscle, into all forms of animal life, the 

 beef yielding Durham, the work oxen the Devon mixed with a little 

 Durham, the milk yielding Holstein, and my own little butter making- 

 Jersey. Now to say that an ignoramus can successfully do this is 

 to to say nothing less than that a blockhead, a leatherhead, may be 

 a good chemist, and run a laboratory successfully. We do not say 

 that the farmer shall understand and use the technique of science, 

 but we do say the successful farmer is a scientific man. His is the 

 work of applied science, 



Let this table therefore be covered with agricultural papers and 

 books. I insist that agricultural papers and books. I insist that 

 agriculture is a science, or many sciences combined. True every 

 successful farmer is not a book farmer, but he is a scientific man, a 

 man of growing intelligence, fit to be a state legislator, a congress- 

 man, a senator, a president 



Let him put his whole mind on to the subject, and feel that the 

 subject is worthy of such devotion. Let the farm be his study as 

 truly as astronomy is the study of the astronomer. Let him study 

 his farm, a live subject, with the same enthusiasm as Tennyson 



