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things, the time will come when the great siih stratum of so- 

 ciety will demand them. And why not give these things in 

 time ? Why not furnish a resort where the boys can play at 

 ball, where lovers can meet and stroll ? I could dwell long 

 upon such a subject as this, had I time. 



Let me now go back once more to the old agricultural ques- 

 tion. It is hardly possible for us to realize the improvements 

 which are in store for us during the next quarter century. If ag- 

 riculture has grown to such great proportions during the last 

 twenty-five years, and horticulture has become what it has, 

 then it is reasonable to suppose that many wonderful improve- 

 ments are still in store for us. When we see the farmers 

 right around us with their horse-rakes and other modern ap- 

 pliances, we are apt to think that about all has been done that 

 can be done ; that we have about reached the limits of agri- 

 cultural machinery ; but this is not so. One ingenious man 

 has made a machine, which, I believe, is destined to thorough- 

 ly revolutionize agriculture — tomake as vast an improve- 

 ment as is seen in improving the breeds of cows from the old 

 grade of $20 to the modern blooded animal of $40,000. Those 

 v/ho have seen the Wilkinson steam plow, to which I refer, an 

 engine with a wheel like the foot of an elephant, which can 

 carry ten wagons loaded with men, and will accomplish a vast 

 amount of work in a very short time, will understand the 

 worth of this new agency. I have seen this machine hitched 

 up and running ten plows. It will save from $10 to $50 to the 

 farmer every time it is used. Thus you will see, my friends, 

 that agricultural 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 



