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liiit tilis ispell of apathy being once l)i(jken hy the hitrodiie- 

 tion of manufacturing jDursuits, and the agriculturist will 

 awake from his slothful dreams and co-operate with the gen- 

 eral progress of things, and wonder that the world moves no 

 faster. 



With industry comes economy ; and when idleness steps 

 out, energy and manhood step in. With manufacturing in- 

 dustry come all the improvements of the age, — better com- 

 mon roads, railroads and canals : waters that have flowed for 

 centuries untamed to the ocean, now turn the Avheels of 

 industry and furnish a highway for the better transportation 

 of the products of the farmer and the manufacturer, creating 

 a home market and cheap carriage for their surplus produc- 

 tions. It is then, and not till then, that the farmer awakes to 

 his own interest. It is then the farmer becomes anxious to 

 probe Nature and wrest from her her richest treasures. His 

 calling assumes a new dignity and importance. It ceases to 

 be a mere means of livelihood, and becomes one of the chief- 

 est instrumentalities of wealth, influence and honor. His 

 land rises in value, his productions are increased, and he 

 supplies himself not only with the necessaries of life, but 

 with its luxuries also, and thus becomes a lord in creation. 

 The farmer who produces food and the raw materials for the 

 manufacturer, must in return receive the products of the 

 manufacturer, such as tools, clothing and furniture ; and the 

 closer their interests are allied, the greater the profits and the 

 cheaper will be their products to each other. 



The produce of the farm especially will not l)ear a long 

 transportation, as the Cost would absorb the whole profit 

 above production. The cost of food that would feed a tiiou- 

 sand people at home would not feed five hundred at the dis- 

 tance of a hundred miles, without the ready means of steam 

 or water transportation, "^rhus it will be seen that a popula- 

 tion, combining all these interests in close relation, can sup- 

 ply each others' wants much cheaper and to the material ad- 

 vantage of all^ sending the surplus to a foreign market, and 



