ation in this town
and county?"

"The effect has been favorable in every way! The attractiveness of our
social organization! the financial success which has crowned our farming
and manufacturing operations; the opportunities offered for young men to
learn so much of the industrial arts; the short hours of light labor;
the long hours of leisure for rest, study and amusement; the
educational, health-giving character, of the amusements; the
fascination, of the club-system of education for adults; the
irresistible charm, of the dancing and vocal entertainments; the
generous wages paid to the co-operators, which affords for them such an
abundant supply of food, clothing and books; the fine quality and
perfect reliability of the large assortment of goods in the farm-store;
the advantages of a rational scheme of insurance, which stands as an
absolute safe-guard against accidents, sickness and old-age; the
improved conditions for women, which largely relieves them from the
irritating, nerve-destroying worry, of a constant burden of household
cares; the fostering care for children, which insures for them ideal
opportunities for birth, unfoldment and education; the manifest
advantage of farming on a scale large enough to allow the use of the
latest and best labor-saving machinery; the astonishing array of huge,
modern barns, storing, curing and packing houses; the wonderful
cheapness and utility of the electric power; the long list of farm
implements, many of them especially invented, which followed the
introduction of this magic-working power; the wide publicity given to
these things through the columns of the Solaris Sentinel, our weekly
farm paper, sent free to friends of the colonists, and to all who ask
for it; considered altogether as a comprehensive whole, is a startling
combination, which has arrested the attention, aroused the interest and
provoked the astonishment of surrounding communities, far and near. As a
consequence, our office has been overwhelmed with a flood of
correspondence from interested enquirers, followed by an ever-increasing
stream of visitors to Solaris, to see for themselves, the verity of this
twentieth century model of farm innovation. In order to answer the great
bulk of queries, emanating from these two sources, a series of articles
describing the object and purpose, and explaining the details of the
enterprise, has been prepared for the columns of the Sentinel. With an
extra large edition of thi