68 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



process, by heat and frost, and by the vast mechanical powers of 

 the revolving globe, are our soils prepared for our cultivation. 

 The ingenuity of man exhausts itself for us. The wheel, the 

 pulley, the lever, the centrifugal and centripetal forces, every 

 curve and angle are brought into the construction of machinery 

 to aid us in subduing a hard and obdurate soil, and in gathering 

 in our crops. In nothing is the profound interest of man in the 

 great art which feeds and clothes him made more manifest than 

 in his constant endeavors to strengthen the hands of those 

 engaged in it. The appeal to us is great. The good God opens 

 liis storehouse of land and sea and sky, and man dedicates his 

 most cunning faculties — all that we may become intelligent and 

 successful farmers. 



