AGRICULTURAL MUSEUM 



" operation of doubting experience among men Avho cb- 

 *•' tain tlioir bread by the sweat of their brows, whose 

 " minds arc not suHlicicntly enlaiged to adopt, but with rc- 

 " luctance, any deviation from the practice of their fore- 

 "fathers, and who are fearful of riskmg the moderate 

 '• certainty they possess for the prospect of greater gains 

 " which are yet unknown." 



The truth of this observation is evident ; and shews the 

 utility of Gentlemen's forming themselves into societies, 

 and offering premiums for the introduction of experi- 

 ments, which will secure the practical farmer from loss in 

 case of their failure. And many JNIembers of such Socie- 

 ties being men of considerable landed property, have a 

 sufiicient influence to propagate the resulting advantages 

 in their respective neighbourhoods ; and have it also in 

 their power to make experiments, which it would perhaps 

 be imprudent for common farmers to make at their own 

 risk. 



Such Gentlemen, therefore, as patronize establishment?, 

 of this kind, do themselves greater honour than their mo. 

 desty will permit them to see in its full lustre; and re- 

 peeuliarly entitled to the thanks of their country. At a 

 very trifling expencc they become the primary means of 

 increasing the wealth and happiness of the community, 

 •who feci, thi'ough every rank and order, the beneficial 

 effects of every improvement that tends to increase the 

 value and the produce of our lands. 



Extract f7XTn the Adch^css of Enoch EDWAr.Ds, Esq. 

 io the Philadelphia County Society, or the Promotion of 

 Agriculture and Domestic Manufactures, Fcb^ 

 2d, 1789. 



From Carey's American 



Agriculture is a profession truly honourable : vene- 

 rable from its great antiquity, and dignified by '-he exten- 

 sive and universal blessings it daily administers to man- 

 kind, It appears; from the sacred writings, to have been 



