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have suitable occupation the comforts of home are multiplied, 
means for benevolent activities increased, education advanced, 
and a spirit of personal independence awakened vital to society. 
ECONOMY OF MATERIALS. 
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By a universal law, variety of pursuits induces economy of ma¬ 
terials. It legitimately raises everywhere, and in reference to 
every substance, the question: What is its use? What can be 
made of it? It induces the habit of finding value in every ma¬ 
terial, of coining everything into gold. 
The progress of our agriculturalists in wealth, is greatly retarded 
by needless and numerous loss. Property in farming implements, 
live stock, farm productions, and the best of fertilizers, amounting 
to $70,000,000 or $80,000,000 annually, is greatly damaged by 
exposure to the weather. In this way our farmers lose more 
money than they pay for all their taxes. Five millions of dol¬ 
lars per year is a moderate estimate for this loss; and any new 
impulse given to industry that shall stimulate men to utilize the 
materials at their command, and the products of their labor, 
would be a public benefaction. So far as mechanical industries, 
by quickening thought, opening new departments of business, 
and multiplying facilities for acquisition would secure this result? 
their encouragement is most desirable. 
PROTECTION AGAINST DERANGED MARKETS. 
The importance of having at all times a fair market for the pro¬ 
ducts of labor is universally admitted. One means for securing 
it is the multiplication of industries. Let all the people of a state 
follow one vocation, and a single incident may seriously affect the 
prosperity of the whole population. Are they agriculturalists ? 
Drought or mildew at once drains their pockets and enervates 
their hearts and hands. Are they engaged in mining, or any par¬ 
ticular kind of manufacture? Any adverse influence affecting 
their chosen pursuit brings calamity upon the whole community. 
The sum total of human wants is essentially the same from 
year to year, and, though the demand for a particular commodity 
may for a time be slight, others will be sought in its place, so that 
varied industry will ever find a market. With a distribution of 
