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one of the chief exports from our country, and that American 

 implements are in demand the world over. One of the most 

 interesting exhibits at Paris, in 1900, was a collection of agri- 

 cultural tools, — stepping stones of progress on parade they 

 might be called, — arranged in chronological order. The 

 curiously archaic forms of the primitive tools led off, then 

 appeared the gradual improvements made at different epochs, 



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until, bringing up the rear, were displayed all the most intri- 

 cate modern machines. A rapid glance revealed the complete 

 histor)' of agriculture and explained its enormous leap ahead, 

 at the present day, by the help of machinery. 



Most of the new and clever devices for economizing labor 

 are to be seen in actual service at any flourishing market 

 garden. It is a part of the business of the school gardener 

 to understand agriculture in all its giant proportions, and to 

 appreciate appliances and what they stand for. It is also 



