CONCLUSION : A BIT OF PHILOSOPHY 



of our efforts, the noble words of Jethro Tull, the Father 

 of Tillage : "Men of the greatest Learning have spent 

 their Time in contriving Instruments to measure the im- 

 mense Distance of the Stars, and in finding out the Di- 

 mensions, and even Weight of the Planets : They think it 

 more eligible to study the Art of plowing the Sea with 

 Ships, than of tilling the Land with Ploughs, they bestow 

 the utmost of their Skill, learnedly, to prevent the natural 

 Use of all of the Elements of Destruction of their own 

 Species, by the bloody Art of War. Some waste their 

 whole Lives in studying how to arm Death with new 



A SURE WAY TO RUIN THE FARM 



It is impossible to estimate the enormous quantity of fertility that has been 

 sent from American farms in baled bundles 



Engines of Horror, and inventing an infinite Variety of 

 Slaughter; but think it beneath Men of Learning (who 

 only are capable of doing it) to employ their learned 

 Labours in the invention of new (or even improving the 

 old) Instruments for increasing of Bread." 



We must keep the fertility up : we must annihilate the 

 soil robber. Just go into any old section of the country 

 into New England, if you please. There you find many 

 deserted homes and abandoned farms. Why? Because 

 the fertility was sold and none replaced. It was sent away 



