ble success,
which we have achieved in this line of invention. When I gave a title to
the farm, I had a premonition, that solar heat and force would be so
successfully harnessed to both industrial and agricultural work, that
the suggestive name of Solaris, would soon become as famous, as it was
fitting and well earned.

"In applying this power to all kinds of farm and factory work, we have
succeeded far beyond my most sanguine expectations. With a plant almost
entirely built by our own co-operative labor, we are able to generate an
abundance of cheap power, which can be easily and safely conducted to
the most distant portions of the farm. This power is readily available
at any desired point, and for all kinds of work; becoming the magic
motor by which we operate trains of trolley cars, for handling grain,
hay, corn and all heavy crops; great gang-plows, rollers, harrows,
cultivators, planters, drills, reapers, threshers and motor wagons; all
so perfectly constructed and so easily controlled; that with them a
woman, fittingly dressed and gloved, protected from the heat of the sun
by a canopy, comfortably seated on cushions and springs, may accomplish
the roughest and heaviest kind of farm work, without fatigue or
discomfort. In fact, our women soon find it the most delightfully,
fascinating work on the farm.

"In connection with such a powerful motor, a single person, operating
one of these improved agricultural machines, can do an amount of work in
six hours, which under the old system would require ten hours of severe
toil by six men and twelve horses. Of course, such machinery can only be
produced and operated by large co-operative farms like this; with a
carefully chosen force of co-operators, who are thinkers as well as
workers; who are intellectually, physically and socially prepared to
invent and construct machines that are perfectly fitted to do this
particular kind of work."

"Really!" said Fern, "this is as interesting as it is remarkable! This
sun-generated force, this magic motor, so perfectly adjusted to
agricultural work, under the test of practical use; which has proved so
easily controlled; together with the tireless host of wonder-working
machines, which this force has called into being; is truly a marvel
worthy of the twentieth century!

"Tell me, Fillmore! Why is it that these things have not been done
before?"

"There are many reasons. I think I can give you the principal one. From
a remote per