on your
part are needed. They understand the circumstances, and wish me to
assure you, that they will rejoice with you over your speedy recovery.
It seems, George, that your physician prescribes plenty of fresh air and
sunshine for you, during the next few days. Do you think you are strong
enough to-day, for another mobile excursion over the farm?"

"Yes Fillmore, quite strong enough, provided the excursion is not too
long. To-morrow, if the weather should be fine, I hope we may be able to
take that trip to Fenwick, which you spoke of on the afternoon of my
arrival. The more I see of the farm, the more I am interested and
delighted. In a very short time, I believe I might become an enthusiast
on the agricultural question. Hitherto, I have had an unexpressed
antipathy, towards farm work.

"Strongly impressed with the idea, that a farm life must necessarily, be
as dull as ditch water; I find Solaris a revelation, which has opened my
eyes and scattered my foolish prejudices to the four winds. At every
turn, some new surprise awaits me. My typical farmer, with his shock of
untrimmed hair and beard, his stooping shoulders, his shambling,
plow-following gait, his great cow-hide boots, his coarse, soiled,
slouchy, ill-fitting blouse and overalls, his grimy hands, his
ill-at-ease, uncultured manners, and his born-tired expression of
countenance, I cannot find. In his place, much to my astonishment, I do
find a splendid people, in the prime of life, lithe, active and
energetic, in the possession of a superabundance of vitality, which
gives them the graceful air of having grown to a perfect maturity, on
the sunny side of life. What does it mean? Everywhere, I am politely
greeted, by dignified, graceful, self-poised, rosy-cheeked, bright-eyed,
happy, well-dressed, educated, refined and polished men and women. Can
it be possible, that they are farm laborers?"

"Every one, friend Gaylord! It is to rightly organized farm labor,
properly supplemented by appropriate machinery, that these people owe
the superior condition in which you find them."

"You have surely created a new era in farming, Fillmore! Do you think a
general introduction of co-operative farming, will produce equally
successful results elsewhere?"

"Much better and more satisfactory, George! Co-operative farming, even
here at Solaris, has as yet scarcely passed the threshold of the
experimental stage. Every new farm, will profit by the errors and
successes of tho