FORETHOUGHT IN FARMING. 109 



100,000,000 bushels of pease and beans, 

 40,000,000 " rice, 



100,000,000 " apples, peaches, pears, plums and 



cherries. 



Tliese would require a bin twenty feet wide, ten feet deep, 

 and 2,400 miles long to contain them. And yet what the 

 United k^tates raises is not more than one-tenth part of what the 

 world produces ; so all together would require a bin of the 

 above depth and width, and long enough to encircle the earth, 

 and right alongside would be required a tank, of the same or 

 much larger dimensions, to hold all the molasses, wines, liquors, 

 ale, cider, and other drinks, including smaller and lager beer. 

 Why, of sugar alone, there were made last year, 2,000,000,000 

 pounds, which could scarcely be contained in a box ten feet 

 deep, twenty feet wide, forty miles long ; while all of the gold 

 m the world would easily find a resting place in one of the same 

 width and depth, and less than forty feet long. 



Were I not fearful of wearying your patience, I should like 

 to make some calculations as to the world's meat market and 

 the world's groceries, and thus make out the bill of fare which 

 is annually placed before tlie hungry denizens of the earth. 

 But I dare not run the risk. I might perliaps of this audience 

 hold the attention a little longer, if I should address the ladies 

 upon the subject of dry goods, instead of groceries ; if I should 

 speak of costly silks, — the shroud of a dying caterpillar, which 

 the farmer fed till it died, — of cotton, muslin, linen, cambrics 

 which the poor slave or rustic farmer must plant and gather 

 annually; of woollens, worsteds and delaines, sheared or pulled 

 from the back of the silly sheep, which the farmer must rear 

 and care for ; or of shawls, the hair of goats and hump-backed 

 camels, which the farmer must watch and attend to. But 

 ladies, there are some things which the farmer does not, pur- 

 posely, at least, raise, such as cats, of which to make kid gloves 

 — wild animals, for furs. This, however, would also be sul)ject 

 to your examination if there was to be a great party this fall, 

 to which all the world were invited, and where the bill of fare 

 above alluded to, would be finally served to all. Some of you, 

 perhaps, have already, like true housekeepers, commenced 

 considering how all the amount of eatable matter is to be cooked 



