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plified in other countries, a less fertile soil and 

 a more ungenial climate, would have drawn 

 forth, it having been well expressed by a cele 

 brated agricultural writer, that where nature is 

 bountiful, man is too apt to be indolent. 



If I might presume to address, and could 

 imagine my advice would reach, the landed 

 proprietors of the States, I would impress upon 

 their attention the advantages to be derived 

 from an observance of the modes of husbandry 

 which, with the aids of science, and after long 

 experience, have been established in Britain, 

 both as regards the cultivation of land and the 

 breeding and rearing of stock.* 



This is a matter of more concernment to 

 American farmers than many of them seem 

 aware of, for, although from the great natural 

 richness of their soil, and, in the general case, 

 its recent subjection to culture, it may as yet 

 exhibit but few signs of exhaustion, it cannot 



* Vide Reports of Counties of England and Scotland 

 drawn up for the Board of Agriculture ; also &quot; Code of 

 Agriculture,&quot; and other valuable agricultural works by 

 Sir John Sinclair. 



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