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It is to the man who works that success comes, in any vo- 

 cation. And I see before me many men, the secret of whose 

 success in amassing fortunes is a matter of mystery to some 

 of their fellows, but which is no mystery to those who know 

 how untiring has been their industry ; how adventuresome has 

 been their labor ; how, in the new, and before them, untrodden 

 deserts of the western world, they have labored to construct 

 the means of travel, of intercommunication ; how they have 

 tunnelled mountains, bridged rivers, filled up valleys, opened 

 new avenues for the outlet of the pent-up industry of the 

 crowded portions of the country, and have created wealth by 

 bringing into cultivation millions of acres of virgin soil, cover- 

 ing them with the vine and grain and untold herds of cattle 

 and sheep and horses, gathering villages and towns and cities, 

 rearing school-houses and churches and factories ! These new 

 places are tributary to the support of the older portions of the 

 country. 



A Massachusetts farmer need not be troubled nor repine at 

 his hard lot when he looks upon the mammoth corn and 

 squashes and peas and peaches which are produced in Kansas 

 and California and other new states. Size is power, other 

 things being equal. The big tree of Calaveras county, Cali- 

 fornia, one hundred feet higher than Bunker Hill monument, 

 whose first branch is two hundred feet from the ground, ex- 

 cited the wonder of our distinguished friend, as he told us last 

 year, but I never yet heard him say he would like to see such 

 a tree growing on his plantation. So at the great fair at 

 Lowell, the other day, they who looked upon the fat woman 

 who weighed a thousand pounds, were none of them desirous 

 to take her home. It is not by the size of the farm so much 

 as it is by the labor and manure bestowed upon it, and its 

 proximity to a market, that its profit is determined. I have 

 seen on a farm in California a thousand bushels of peas laying 

 on the ground to be devoured by pigs, or to rot, because there 

 was no better use for them. A farmer in Norfolk county 

 would know what to do with them. 



It will be a long time before these wonderful farms of which 



