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proved upon liis threshing-machine and attached it to his fanning- 
mill, it gave him plows and harrows and cultivators of increased 
efficiency, and improved generally upon his implements from the 
most important to the most trifling. He availed himself of these 
facilities, and the great west became a vast harvest-field—the sup¬ 
port of the nation and largely the granary of the world. To-day 
it is a blooming, fragrant Italy—the lovely valley of the Delira 
Doon, of India, blossoming amidst the mountains and rivers and 
inland seas of America. The east now looks to the west for in¬ 
struction in the 
SCIENCE OF AGRICULTURE. 
She listens to the song of our harvesters, and looks upon our over¬ 
burdened elevators with a consciousness that soil and climate are 
not alone the cause of such gladness and enormous yield. She ad¬ 
mires our orchards and studies our system of horticulture which 
produces such varied and magnificent results. She walks in our 
gardens and studies the growth and beauty of our roses, and gerani¬ 
ums and heliotropes, and goes home to imitate our successful flori¬ 
culture; she examines our daises and acknowledges their approach 
to, if not their equality with, the excellence of her own; she pur¬ 
chases our stock and takes it east to improve her natives, and she 
unhesitatingly admires the progress and enterprise on our western 
farms. Such briefly has been the progress, such is the present con¬ 
dition and such are the benefits of agriculture and its kindred indus¬ 
tries in the northwest. Its present perfection is the fruit of un¬ 
flinching fortitude, personal sacrifice, laborious toil, and much un¬ 
profitable experiment. The west was a huge volume, and experience 
was the only teacher of its lessons to the pioneer. He bravely 
placed himself under instructions at the feet of that merciless in¬ 
structor, and what he learned he gladly imparted to those who 
come after him but much remained which could be taught only by 
the original tutor, and much yet remains which can be learned only 
from harsh experience. 
If it therefore be true that the sweat of the farmer’s brow has 
nurtured this nation into greatness; that his privations in this new 
northwest has surrounded thousands with luxuries in elegant homes; 
that the three hundred millions bushels of grain which he annually 
forces from these valleys and plains construct our internal improve- 
