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But the Journal of the Society will also prove of im- 

 mense advantage. It will embody a vast amount of mat- 

 ter, useful and interesting to every cultivator in the 

 Union. The most carefully prepared tables of the pro- 

 ductions of the earth, from every section of the Union, 

 will be kept constantly before the reader, totally different 

 from those vehicles of deception, and often fraud upon 

 the farmer, called "prices current." It is by the quantity 

 produced, and the probable demand therefor, that we can 

 understand whether it is for our interest to sell our crops 

 now, or store them up. At every meeting there would 

 be numbers from every state in the Union, as ready to 

 impart as receive information. 



"All the inducements of the business of a National So- 

 ciety, a National Fair, and a National School," and the 

 honor of being a member of such a society, would be 

 enough, I think, to make us all feel that it would be a 

 greater honor to be elected a state delegate to one of the 

 annual meetings of the National Society than to be 

 elected a member of Congress. 



It cannot be expected in this short address, that I 

 should point out all the good that would flow from the 

 action of the proposed society. But if we are convinced 

 that the effect would conduce to the interest and happi- 

 ness of the great mass of agriculturists of the Union, let 

 us act, and with spirit too. 



And now, my friends, one and all, do you approve of 

 the plan of organization? Speak out boldly if you do 

 not. And if you do not object, the leading friends of the 

 measure will fix upon a day for the first meeting, and 

 proceed in the manner proposed. 



There has been an argument raised against organizing 

 such a society at present, "because the public mind has 

 not been sufficiently instructed, and does not sufficiently 

 appreciate the advantages of such an association to ren- 

 der it successful." 1 



1 See editorial in Cultivator, 8:27 (February, 1841). 



