and yet nothing is more important to the development of our 

 fruit and vegetable-gardening interests. The curing of meats 

 and home manufacture of animal products must be taught; 

 and also the whole great question of refrigeration and storage. 

 The whole subject of mechanical power and of the best use of 

 machinery must be developed on the American farm. With 

 all our knack for invention, we are not the foremost people in 

 the application of small power to farm work and housework. 

 The necessity of economizing human labor must itself force 

 the use of gasoline and other engines, small water power, 

 electrical power, and others, on thousands and millions of 

 farms; and the use of such machines will set new ideals into 

 the minds of men. With the development of long-distance 

 transmission of electric energy, it will be increasingly more 

 possible for such power to be diverted to farm uses; and yet 

 we do not seem to be giving any attention to this subject, 

 although the development is coming in Germany and other 

 countries. Every good farm must in time have its own power ; 

 but we must first train up a race of mechanic-minded farmers. 

 Even the common farm machinery is not usually understood 

 by those who use it, nor, with all our invention of machines for 

 the easier and more wholesale farm practices, have we yet 

 developed farm machinery to anywhere near its possible 

 extent of perfection or necessity. The burden of household 

 labor is to be solved in part by better mechanical contrivances. 

 The mid-western states are realizing the importance of develop- 

 ing the machinery-sense in the young farmer, but in New York 

 we are distantly behind. Colleges of mechanic arts cannot be 

 asked to develop this subject, for they have their legitimate 



