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England, almost a century ago, by the best minds. This in 

 terest has borne abundant fruit, in making England to-day, 

 for the number of acres cultivated, the most productive 

 country in the world, both as to the variety of staples grown 

 and the quantities obtained yearly from the soil. 



We find, by the Transactions of the Bath Agricultural 

 Society, for the year 1810, that there were then in Great 

 Britain (besides the Board of Agriculture, of which Sir John 

 Sinclair was President and no less a person than Arthur 



* Coat-of-Arms of Great Britain. 



Young, Esq., Secretary) eighty-one Agricultural Societies in 

 regular working order ; and to show that they believed, also, 

 in women s rights, we might point to the fact that one of 

 them, the Badenach and Strathspey Society, had a woman 

 for President, in the person of the celebrated Duchess of 

 Gordon. 



