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It has become a business of enlightened governments to increase 

 and multiply for their peoj^le all the necessary and agreeable pro- 

 ductions of all the world. 



The Emperor of the French has established large societies for 

 the use of France — they are under his personal care and protec- 

 tion — for the acclimation of all animals in France, if possible, 

 including even the ostrich, with its nest of forty to sixty eggs. 

 The home-breeding offish has drawn great attention by its proud 

 success. The waters of the lands and the oceans are being sup- 

 plied with new ones, where the former races had disappeared. 

 The President of the American Institute, R. L. Pell, has pub- 

 lished highly valuable papers on that interesting subject — better 

 than the European. 



The whole powers of science and art are enlisted in vigorous 

 efforts to improve agriculture, and they have already doubled 

 the feed power of England in the last twelve years; that of Ire- 

 land in seven years; and quadrupled that of Germany in twenty 

 years. Here, although wearing out our virgin soil heretofore, at 

 the rapid rate with which foolish heirs waste an estate^ we now 

 have begun to double the best crops which that virgin soil ever 

 gave. Those who know best the history of our agriculture, be- 

 lieve that science and art have been worth :to us, in the last few 

 years, more money than California yields — twice over every year. 

 I have no doubt of that. 



And to all this amelioration we know that the mechanic power 

 of the Republic has contributed a lion's share in plows, cultiva- 

 tors, hoes, weeders, reapers, mowers, steam in every form — in 

 fetching and carrying to market, grinding, etc. 



And the end is yet far off. For it is now easy to see that bar- 

 ren places can be turned into paradise gardens and farms ! The 

 Emperor of the French has already destroyed the barren, gloomy 

 Boisde Boulogne, where, among stinted trees and sand, the duelists 

 from Paris manured it with its only manure — their blood ! — and 

 where now, by deep and abundant culture and manure, it pre- 

 sents the delightful face of a garden and meadows ! 



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