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weed is ever seen the universal proprietorship of 

 France, the technical research of Germany, the scien- 

 tific cultivation of Britain, the progressive management 

 of America, the thorough co-operation of Denmark, 

 shall become the heritage of all. 



And then shall the earth yield her increase. The 

 Sahara shall become an unroofed greenhouse, arcaded 

 with palms, garlanded with vines, swarded with gourds ; 

 every mile of the tropics shall be pruned into exuberant 

 largesse, and even the Arctics shall yield a richer tribute 

 than temperate zones once gave for it is a scientific 

 fact that the moss-covered tundras of our Northland, 

 when once our herdsmen tend the reindeer there, are 

 fitted to give as rich an output of food for man as do 

 the grassy plains of Texas with their long-horned steers 

 to-day. 



Let none despise the heritage of Our Lady of the 

 Snows ! Why do the wild birds migrate to the north ? 

 J^ot for longer hours of daylight, and not for solitude 

 for nesting, but for ampler food-supply. Lean of sinew, 

 they fly high above our ken as they go north, and the 

 pot-hunter scarce deigns to look for them as they pass. 

 Rotund of body, they fly low as they return, and are 

 everywhere slaughtered, for they have fed fat upon the 

 myriad swarms of insects of the Arctic summer, and 

 their very flesh is stained purple with the juices of the 

 berries of its autumn. Why are our shoals of finest 

 food-fishes, why the whale, nature's masterpiece of phy- 

 sical growth, denizens of the cold waters only? Be- 

 cause the cold waters, and they alone, are literally thick 

 with food. And man shall yet, in some way, follow 

 nature's hints; and when he shall begin to tend his 

 flocks of solan geese and eider duck, he shall ask, but 



