" Tlic produce of the /iiisba)id man's labours is the only 

 mcrcha)idise ivhicli all the world is ohlioed to deal iu, and it 

 Teas such a co)isideration that induced many early writers 

 to recommend agriculture as the most profitable of all the 

 arts. 



" War, navigation, and commerce can never dispeople a 

 rvise nation whose agriculture flourishes in full vigour, as 

 industrious natio)!s are the most populous as well as the most 

 virtuous. Industry is the vis matrix of husbandry." 



Canon Harte, " Es.sa)s on Husbandry." 



