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Likewise, in commerce and trade, those who produce new values, 
by saving the time of others engaged in the production of other 
new values, and whose conflicts or alliances tend directly to elicit 
aggregate skill, fall hack on organization to attain an ultimate per¬ 
fection. 
With these classes of producers, organization is a historical as 
well as a fixed fact, elaborated almost into a science. Not so with 
the producers of material values. Their crude attempts at organi¬ 
zation are more modern, less general, and less perfect. 
Laborers, mechanics, manufacturers, farmers and horticulturists 
need much more the experiences of those alike engaged, for in 
them lie the varied sources of the material wealth of this nation. 
Organization to them means much more than to other classes in 
the great activities of life, by reason of their less frequent contact 
with each other. 
There being a right and a wrong way of doing the most simple 
performances of labor, it becomes important that the experiences 
of as many, or all engaged therein, be massed for the benefit of all. 
To the ax-man it is of importance, not only that the implement 
he uses have a keen edge, but that the arc of that edge be just what 
is best adapted to the principles of the sliding-cut, while the face 
of the implement have the utmost smoothness as well as just such 
increase of thickness and shape as will allow it to sink the deepest 
into the wood, consistent with the necessity of clearing itself of 
chips. All this secured, and the handle of the implement must be 
of that length and construction to enable the chopper to place the 
second lick just where the first left off, in sinking the carf to the 
greatest extent with the least possible expenditure of force. 
To the splitter of wood it is important to know just how to ap¬ 
ply the principles of inclined planes to the grain of the timber, 
and the resistance of knots, as well as that construction of the 
beetle which gives him the nicest control and the utmost power in 
propelling the wedge in the execution of its work. 
To the mechanic it is important to compare the different methods 
of manipulating details and adopt only those in harmony with the 
highest excellence and most economical construction. 
As to the manufacturer, all this is true, and more. But when we 
come to the farmer and the horticulturist, can we over estimate 
the importance to them, of the experiences of the past as well as 
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