se previously established. Each one will add to the
strength and working capacity of the mass. This improvement will
steadily increase, until the children born under the new system, become
its principal working factors. When that time arrives, the influence of
the born and bred agriculturalists, will have grown so strong, socially
and politically, that a new impetus will be given to the movement, by
the favorable legislation which they can then command.

"When we consider the future of the co-operative farm, as a working
factor for good, in the affairs of the Republic; we can then appreciate
the great importance of the movement. Stirpiculture, wedded to
agriculture, ushers in a new era for the birth and education of an
epoch-making race of dominant thinkers, so well born, so self-poised, so
harmoniously developed, physically, intellectually, and spiritually,
that without effort, they are naturally chosen by the masses, as social
and political leaders."

"What an enthusiastic dreamer you are, Fillmore! The picture of the
future of the movement, which you have so graphically drawn, seems too
good to be true! My brain is in a whirl trying to follow you! Let us now
prepare for that promised ride."

CHAPTER XL.

THE COMING ERA OF GOOD ROADS.

"Since our mobile excursion to the farm village of Fenwick, I have been
haunted by the beauty, smoothness, utility and durability, of the
magnificent highway, which now connects the two villages. I am more than
ever impressed with the power of the co-operative movement, to effect a
revolution in all industrial methods; especially, in travel and the
transportation of farm products. Tell me, Fillmore! Do you think this
road-building fever, will continue to spread with the growth of the
movement?"

"Yes, George, with every new road, will come an added impetus to the
movement, which will insure a steady progress. The importance of good
roads as a source of wealth, and a mark of civilization, is just
beginning to be understood by agricultural people, and by rural
populations generally. Oppressed on every hand by the universal
extortion of railroad monopoly, they are slowly awakening to a
realization of the fact, that the question of cheap transportation, is
for them, the one, overshadowing question, which demands immediate
attention.

"As an object lesson on the subject of good roads, the introduction, and
constantly increasing use, of bicycles, motor cycles, motor freight