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will save from ten dollars to fifty dollars to the farmer every 

 time it is used. Thus you will see, my friends, that agricult- 

 ural science is as yet but in its infancy. The farmer who 

 now tills twenty acres will in the future till one hundred 

 acres, and do it with greater ease and profit than he can now 

 manage his twenty. These monster machines, to be sure, are 

 too expensive for any one individual to own, but a score or 

 more farmers, by clubbing together, can make it profitable to 

 use them. When you realize the vast possibilities of the 

 future, you will believe that the man who is with us to-day — 

 who has seen such improvements as Colonel Wilder has seen 

 during the past twenty-five years — will be but as a mere child 

 in comparison with the grown man of u generation or two 

 hence. 



