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arrival in the country I found there were no cows, goats, 

 or sheep. These I introduced, and at the same time a 

 quantity of gram upon which sheep are fattened in East 

 India. After the arrival of the cattle they declined 

 the gram, and I found on inquiry that they had been 

 browsing on this grass, and upon which they con 

 tinued to feed. They all became as fat as if fed on the 

 gram, (a kind of pulse,) which remained on hand, there 

 being no use for it. This grass would be valuable in 

 America, and should be introduced for there is very 

 little vegetable in the grass way in all America that I have 

 seen ; and indeed I believe it is frequently the case, 

 down to the South especially, that a man may have from 

 twenty to thirty cows and not a drop of milk for his 

 breakfast. Of course there are two causes for that ; the 

 first, the worst of all, is idleness and bad management 

 combined ; the second is the scarcity of vegetation, or 

 fodder. 



Beyond the introduction of this grass, it will be well 

 to suggest to Americans generally the great facilities to 

 introduce a great variety of grains and pulses required 

 in America, from other countries. I will here name 

 some that seem to be worthy of attention, and may lead 

 to further inquiry for others : 



Of Cereals, there are a great variety of millets and 

 small grains and several kinds of wheat and rice. 



Of Pulses, Indian gram and dholl would be valuable. 



Of Oil Seeds, the sesamum, mustard-seed, &c. There 

 are upwards of twenty articles from which the Indians 

 extract oil. 



