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By its power to diffuse these seeds, plants, and animals throughout 

 our land J by its power to send to any farmer that desired it, portions 

 of all these, and the most accurate and authentic accounts of their 

 origin, qualities and modes of production; by establishing such pre- 

 miums for great agricultural improvemenls as would produce the very 

 highest competition — by all this, every intelligent farmer would keep 

 his eye upon the department which so deeply concerns his welfare, 

 and would feel himself ennobled by its existence. 



The department would employ clerks well acquainted with the ag- 

 ricultural history of all nations. Correspondence would be established 

 with all foreign and domestic agricultural societies. The sovereigns 

 of the old world would communicate with the department, and thus 

 the great landed interest become eminent among all nations, and the 

 eternal truth brought up to the view of all men, that the glory of 

 nations, their virtue, and their high agriculture, are three inseparable 

 facts ! H. MEIGS, 



Chairman of the committee. 



(Signed) — A. P. Byram, Kentucky. 



Moses B. Coe, Kew-Jersey. 



Martin Ellsworth, Connecticut. 



Isaac H. Tiffany, Montgomery, Jf. York. 



James Darrach, Orange co., JV. York. 



Wm. J. Gilchrist, Saratoga, JV. York. 



Peter H, Brink, Saugerties, JV. York. 



Jacob D. Van Winkle, Bergen, JV. J. 



Jenison S. Ward, Gloversville, JV. York 



L. A. Smith, Essex, JV. J. 



H. A. S. Dearborn, Roxhury, J[Iass. 



R. T. Underhill, Croton Point, JV. Y. 



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MEMORIAL 



Of the JVational Convention of Farmers, Gardeners, and Silk Cul- 

 turists, held in JVew-York, October 14/A, 1846. 



To THE Congress of the United States, 



On Washington's Department of Agriculture : 



The National Convention of Farmers, Gardeners, and Silk Cultu- 

 rists, now in session in the city of New-York, respectfully present the 

 following memorial, unanimously adopted by this convention, viz: 



Your memorialists, in common with a large body of the American 

 agriculturists, have, for some time past, deemed it of the highest im- 



