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But it was not our design to allude to the modes of production. 

 Every practical farmer is already familiar with these from experi- 

 ence, to say nothing of the easy access to our well-conducted agri- 

 cultural journals, which keep up with every new improvement in all 

 departments of husbandry. If we have succeeded in throwing some 

 light and interest over the history of this valuable grain, our aims 

 are accomplished. 



In conclusion, we would say, that if America has furnished the 

 Old World with maize, the potatoe, tobacco, cocoa, vanilla, and other 

 plants useful to man, she is herself indebted to the Eastern continent 

 for wheat, barley, oats and rice, for the coffee plant, now one of her 

 staple products, for oranges, lemons, peaches, and many other plants 

 which now grow in great luxuriance both in the tropics and in our 

 temperate climates. These plants Europe had been receiving for 

 more than twenty centuries, from the Greeks and Romans, and from 

 the nations of the East, till they had accumulated in rich profusion 

 upon her Western shores. Now, many of them, together with many 

 of our own, are borne on to the islands of the South Sea, still fur- 

 ther West, whither the restless march of civilization is tending. The 

 natural gifts of one country to another, facilitated by commerce and 

 the arts, are fast binding together the remotest corners of the globe. 

 Let the full tide of civilization roll on ! Let commerce bear to every 

 land, and to every island in the sea, products which shall humanize 

 mankind, and increase the aggregate of comfort and happiness ! 

 These are the fruits of peace ! 



