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(by some called shadds, by some, allizes) that at the 

 spring of the yeare passe up the rivers to spawn in the 

 pond, and are taken in such multitudes in every river 

 that hath a pond at the end that the inhabitants doung 

 their ground with them. You may see in one town- 

 ship a hundred acres together, set with these fish, every 

 acre taking 1000 of them, and an acre thus dressed will 

 produce and yield so much corn as three acres without 

 fish; and (least any Virginea man would infere here- 

 upon that the ground of New England was barren, be- 

 cause they use more fish in setting their corne, I de- 

 sire them to be remembered, the cause is plaine in Vir- 

 ginea) they have it not to sett. But this practice is 

 only for the Indian maize (which must be set by hand), 

 not for English grain; and this is, therefore, a com- 

 modity there." 



We look back to-day, therefore, three centuries to the 

 very beginnings of American agriculture. To that 

 dusky bronze figure, proud in the simplicity of his for- 

 tune, let us to-day turn our eyes. Eor that service 

 which he rendered the struggling pilgrim, and for that 

 example of scientific agriculture let us to-day bring this 

 tardy tribute to Squanto. 



THE, END 



