94 MODERN HIGH FARMING. 



to the level of modern science, will hardly fail to perceive how 

 coarse and ignorant is that prejudice, how base and grovelling those 

 capacities, which still refuse to recognize its wondrous revelations. 



The fossilized systems which were good enough for a by-gone 

 age cannot any longer assimilate with our gigantic progress. They 

 do not keep step with the conceptions of natural law and order 

 forced upon our minds by modern thought. Are not agriculturists, 

 of all men, the ones to deal with that question which dominates all 

 others in natural interest and importance the question of our food 

 supply ? When placed upon the scale of sober judgment with every 

 other social problem, does not this one outweigh them all, and come 

 crashing down like lead when weighed with feathers ? 



Is it not to feed our children that we make all the best efforts of 

 our lives? And where the food of nations depends upon the issue, 

 should not every reasoning being lend strength to tear aside that 

 curtain which hides the sun of knowledge and holds men's minds in 

 ignorance and darkness ? 



We are stepping on far, we are stepping on swiftly. The Schools 

 are rendering us assistance, and hurrying us on to emancipation; and 

 so surely as the intellect develops and expands, so surely will the 

 modern farmer cast aside the last remnants of his prejudices, and, 

 seeing that the turn has come in the tide of his affairs, will take it at 

 the flood and be led on to fortune. 



