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and children. The resulting manure from the feeding 

 of cattle would be 2,800,000,000 lbs. We would thus 

 give a new market for coal, coke, bone-black, lime- 

 stone, matches, brooms, various brushes, cords, leather, 

 lime (hydraulic, etc.), plaster, oil of various natures 

 (to grease the machines, etc.), potassa, sulphur, sul- 

 phate of iron, salts of ammonia and soda, bisulphide of 

 lime, muriatic acid, etc., various wires (copper and 

 iron), iron and copper rivets, bolts, and also lead, zinc, 

 tin, borax, tar, flax oil, colza oil, various kinds of putty, 

 white lead, various sizes of window panes, etc. etc. etc. 

 Besides the above, many millions of tons of iron and 

 copper for the building of the various machines in and out 

 of the factory, and hundreds of millions of bricks to con- 

 struct the walls of the same. We would, in this manner, 

 give employment to engineers, chemists, agriculturists, 

 and to every possible branch of industry. We would 

 thus have an increase in the demand, and the number 

 employed in manufacturing the same would thereby be 

 augmented. Besides this, it would increase greatly 

 the yearly traffic on railroads, canals, steamboats, etc. 



We would consequently see small clusters of houses 

 forming around the factories, these lodging the work- 

 men, the stores supplying their domestic wants, the 

 roads (public or private) would be transformed into 

 streets, and the towns would become cities, and they 

 would there have three elements required by man — meat, 

 bread, and sugar. The first would be the consequence 

 of the fattening principles, the second would be less- 



