THE 



AGRICULTURAL MUSEUM* 



OMNIS FERET OMNIA TELLUSi TIRG. 



Vol.1.] Georgetoicn, Ca. Xtn 9. IHl] TNo. 14. 



For the Afrricultural Museum. 

 l^i.o. IT. 



Circumstances have placed within this District, tlie 

 means, which few of the Slates possess, of increasing ag- 

 ricultural knowledge, by tryinj^ the cultivation of, and diU 

 fusint^ information respectino-, newly introduc d veffeta* 

 bles, whether objects of horticulture, proper for the !o ul 

 of animals, or articles of commerce. The advanta'--s 

 to be reaped by ourselves, as well as the benefit whicli 

 our country may receive, from making a judicious use of 

 these means, call upon us to bring them forward. 1 take 

 the liberty therefore, through you, as editor of the Mu- 

 seum and Secretary to the Agricultural Society-, to soli- 

 cit the attention of that Society, and of the publiCjto these 

 things, believing it to be only necessary to present them 

 to view, in order to have the proper steps taken to bring 

 them into activity. 



Our country has but lately been reclaimed from the 

 ■Wilderness : its inhabitants had long to stnggle against 

 the dii'iiculties incident to infant coloniza ion ; aiid, it re* 

 quired all their carp, attention and industry, for many 

 years, to produce from the earth articles of first n.^cessity 

 to themselves, or, which were wanted as ol-'jects of com* 

 merce with other nations, in order to provide those lo- 

 reign manufa-tures which the progress of civilization 

 had render "d necessary to domestic comfort. Occupied 

 in the supply of their present wants, and on objects which 

 produced an immediate profit, that foresight which pro- 

 vides for the future was seldom exercised: the exertromS" 

 «f all were to lessen the evils of the day, 2^ 



