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longer to live, if I live to be seventy years old, and there is nothing 
that I should delight in so much as to go on to my farm. I be¬ 
lieve I could take more enjoyment on my farm now than I ever 
did, and if I had known as much about farming twenty years ago 
as I do today, I never should have said anything about exhausted 
soil, but should have raised larger crops because I planned it in- 
telligentty. So let us educate our boys so they will come back on 
to the old homestead; I desire to have my homestead handed down 
to future generations, and my children, their children and grand¬ 
children live and thrive there. 
Mr. Barland. In regard to this machine; the life of it is very 
much akin to the life of a human being; through carelessness or 
ignorance either may be lost, or its usefulness much impaired. I 
have in my eye a neighborhood where the majority of the farmers 
are ignorant of a machine. You take a highly-organized machine 
like a reaper, and you have got to know something about it before 
you can use it. I have in my eye another neighborhood where one 
farmer has had one reaper in nse for the last ten years, and he un¬ 
derstood how to use it, and the others got their wits from the black¬ 
smith. But how much better if there was a farmers’ club, where 
those who have this large knowledge could impart it to neighbors, 
and have a mechanics’ library, and have knowledge of machinery 
and such things by the advice of those having practical knowledge. 
Mr. Clark. This subject is familiar. I presume, to most of us, 
and it is a matter we can discuss in our organizations, and as we 
have the privilege only once in the year to hear from these profes¬ 
sors whom we have here at our service at this time, perhaps there 
will be no more favorable opportunity than this to hear from them, 
and I suggest that we hear something from Professor Daniells. 
Professor Daniells. What I have said in regard to lime, it 
seems to nie is sufficient alread} r . Lime can be used beneficially on 
soils which have any large amount of organic matter in them, and 
used occasionally; but continued use of large quantities of lime 
will destroy the producth eness of the soil without continuous ad¬ 
ditions of very large quantities of organic matter. 
Question. Whj r is it they have to depend so largely on lime in 
Ergland for the production of large crops of wheat? 
Professor Daniells. Vevy la~ge quantities of lime were used 
forty years ago in England, sometimes one hundred bushels to the 
