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enough; cloth of all sorts became more and more dear; every- 

 thing was limited. Now, suppose our adjacent country did not 

 supply eggs ! Steamers and railroads can bring them fresh a 

 thousand miles and a million times more of them. Fresh heef in 

 ice cars comes here from the far West, our peaches come several 

 hundred miles, game fresh from our borders, ice goes a thousand 

 miles to our hot regions. Our fresh milk comes over a hundred 

 miles to breakfast. We ask a friend in New Orleans " How do you 

 do ?" and in two minutes you hear him, " Very well I thank ye." 

 With such means we see no difficulty in the extension of New- 

 York city, from Sandy Hook to the city of Hendrik Hudson, a 

 hundred miles up this river with depth of water all the way for 

 that other new wonder of the world, the Leviathan ! Chem- 

 istry will have all the refuse material of such a metropolis, and 

 return it all to the fields whence it originated, to double their 

 fertility to all time ! Then our Croton will be a plaything, while 

 we drink the freshet of our great North river. Returning to 

 farming ! we foresee the greatest perfection of farming will surely 

 come. Boydell of England, has lately succeeded to a valuable 

 extent in ploughing and harrowing by steam. We shall be happy 

 to be taught to plough, or dig, or harrow, or reap by England, 

 or anybody else; but it is better that we should begin at home. 

 It is an honest pride ! 



We believe that chemistry has not only already made millions 

 for the farmers, but that it will ere long give all the fertilism 

 wanted, superior to any now known. Guano may be exhausted, 

 but the chemical powers to produce a better one never will be 

 while man keeps that erect posture which he is beginning to have, 

 as he casts his eyes upon the vast powers and privileges now be- 

 stowed upon him; realizing poor Ovid's "Os homini sublime 

 dedit" as he wrote it at Odessa, on the Black Sea, 1800 years ago. 

 It sounds well in his Latin, but I like it in English : " To man 

 he gave a sublime countenance," etc. 



The advancement of one art leads to another. Links of one 

 grand chain ! How could we lay a line across the stormy At- 

 lantic, if Fulton's genius had not prepared the steamer and 

 Franklin the principles of the telegraph 1 



