iuust iucrcaije in an equal degree. Tu the nieasure of city 

 growth must the resources of the country be developed ; so 

 that tlie lament, often heard from agriculturists of this section 

 that the great interests arc here centering in manufactures, 

 should cliange to tones of gladness at the better opportunities 

 sure to come ; opjiortunitics, perhaps, even now knocking at 

 their door, could the Avelcome summons be detected by ears 

 ^trained only to catch sounds of approaching storm. 



Again it is said that the opening to tillage of new fields 

 rich and vast is prejudicial to the interests of all other kinds 

 of Imsbandry. 



Statistics plainly show that the great food-exporting nations 

 nre not inhabitants of nc^v countries, but of regions where 

 land is divided into minute portions, subjected to the so-called 

 high-farming process. The facility witli which trade, foreign 

 or domestic, is supplied through the medium of market- 

 centers great and ijumcrous being witliin small areas of im- 

 mense pioductiveness, the less comparative cost of labor, 

 owing to the density of the poj)ulation, are among the causes 

 which gi\e to France and Belgium their agricultural pre- 

 eminence. 



I instance not these cases iu the fulsome adulation not un- 

 •common to be addressed to countries other than our OAvn. 

 Their prosperity is of a nation, and often at the expense of 

 individual comfort and hn[)pLncss. The cheap labor resulting 

 from a teeming i)()i)ulation is not ours, nor do we envy the 

 wealth which it may liring to a few. I only instance them to 

 show that great productiveness has not resulted from the till- 

 age of lar^e areas bv individuals, for which some of the 

 reasons are given above, Avhile more are to follow in the com- 

 parison to be adduced between Eastern and Western farming 

 in the United States ; for in as niuch as between ourselves 

 iind these old and densely populated countries, with whose 

 4igricultural industries \\c could scarcely hope to compete, the 

 fcroad seas interpose an effectual barrier, our only concern is 

 with the rival sections of our own countrv. 



