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mers have but to will it, and no power on earth can prevent their 

 having all they demand. Let them now come to the polls and say 

 that Washington's department for agriculture shall be established! 

 Then they will soon see every officer of army and navy — every Mi- 

 nister and Consul — every captain of merchant vessel, under direc- 

 tions to bring home, form the uttermost parts of the world, every 

 seed, plant and animal, every appliance to farm and garden labor, 

 every valuable book, every true account of the properties and uses 

 of what they bring home — all the transactions of agricultural soci- 

 eties from every nation, and each farmer admitted to a correspoA- 

 dence with his great agricultural secretary, and to a share of the 

 precious things and precious knowledge thus condensed in Washing- 

 ton's Department for Agriculture. And the American Institute will 

 never cease to join you noble farmers of the American Republic in 

 establishing this system of the glorious father of his country, while 

 they have a dollar, a pen, or a voice left! 



