Year: 1870

/ it possible for you to choose so


wisely that from one you can, with


the same labor, produce twice as
much from some as from another.
Make this power your servant EX-
plOre the mysteries OF soil, moisture
and sunshine, and make them your
slaves. The egg Of frog and fish
may be so alike that neither chemis-


try nor the microscope can detect any


difference vet from the one comes


a sprawling frog and in the other a


gigantic fish. Through the whole
animal kingdom this mystery runs.


You are not wise to feed a stunted,
craggy heifer, when the same food


would give you the rich and abundant


product Of an Alderney COW. Again,


the mystery and power Of mechanics


may be made your willing and eff


cient slave.


Where, by any continuance, the
muscle Of the brute or the force Of
steam can be made to serve you, you


may pass up from the position Of ser


want to that of commander. Let the


brain take its full share in the work.
Watch for the next census and see to


what extent the use Of machines has
increased since 1850, and you will


have a good index of your progress in
the solution Of this great problem.
The diffusion Of special knowledge
on these subjects is Of the utmost inn
portanee. The agricultural colleges
will do great work in this respect.


6ut will their students stay on the
farm? doubt it. You must bring
culture and special knowledge into
the farmers home and into his fields.
For this purpose, such an exhibition
as we see here to-day is of the great
est Importance. This is a great school
Of actual, practical results, and every
farmer here is both teacher and a
student to-day.


Permit me to say in conclusion that
there are three forces that must be
brought to bear in the settlement Of
this prOblem-the home, the school
and the church-and they are the
trinity Of saving influences. Among
all the American products which
saw at the great Paris exposition, in
1861, none so stirred my pride as an
American, as the farmers nome and
school house, which some thoughtful
citizen of the United States erected
on the exposition grounds. To the
European labOrer we were able to say,
" Go to America and we will give you
one hundred and sixty acres Of land.
You can build such house as this on
it for eight hundred dollars, and there
will be erected near il, at the public
expense, such a school house as that,
where your children may be edu.
Gated without cost to you, except in
the taxes you pay" That spectacle
preached a louder sermon than the
guns of GravelOtte or Sedan.


Make the farmers home the abode
of industry and thrift, such as farm
labor can make it; and of intelli-
gence and culture, such as our schools
and public press can make it; and Of
purity and truth, such as a broad and
unsectarian religion can make it, and
you will have solved the question
have raised. And now a word to the
young men who may hear me. Get
intelligence, culture and conscience,
and then get ground to stand on
ground of your own, and hire out to
yourself Be your own master and
pay yourself the wages you earn, and
put the profits Of your labor in your
own pocket. Do not forever be COM
manded. Command something, If it
be only q horse and dray. Be assured
that in your brain and arm are Just as
much fortune and fame as you are
willing to dig out. Look to yourself
for resources, and whatever you do,
let it be only in the last extremity
that you go to Washington after a
olerkship.