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MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



What we most need is to save waste. We are wasting good 

 land in New England b}' letting it lie idle for want of brains and 

 capital ; laborers to work it are wanting. We are wasting hay b}- 

 feeding it to stock when chopped corn stalks wonld serve as well. 

 We are wasting food on every table — perhaps proportionately 

 more on the tables of the poor than on those of the well-to-do. We 

 are smothered in our own grease, and, like Nebuchadnezzar, 

 we need to be sent to grass. 



But what if we saved all this wasted wealth — what should we 

 do with it? Perhaps it would bring about the realization of the 

 dream of the labor reformer — eight hours for work, eigiit hours 

 for sleep, and eight hours for leisure. 



When we earn our leisure bj' saving waste we shall perhaps know 

 what to do with it. The " Old Bohemian," in his Cookery Book, 

 says that " leisure consists in the diligent and intelligent use of 

 time." Whether the leisure which I have devoted to this lecture 

 merits the second adjective in his definition, I leave to you to decide. 



The apparatus mentioned on page 91 as in operation during 

 the lecture is shown in vertical section in the subjoined illustraliou. 



THE ALADDIN COOKKK. 



