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and middle States, by their grain and the culture 

 of tobacco, form a vast store-house and granary for 

 domestic aud exporting uses, unlike the granaries of 

 Rome, inexhaustible, and not filled from plundered 

 provinces. 



I might dilate upon these animating motives to 

 exertion, which our favoured position and resources 

 so strongly urge — but I forbear, pausing only to add, 

 that if the cause of agriculture and the claims of this 

 society have no recommendation from considerations 

 like these, there is yet one precious and irresistible 

 motive, to be found in the opinions and practice of 

 him, the mention of whose name raises a throb of 

 gratitude in every heart that loves liberty. — Among 

 the letters preserved and published of the immortal 

 Washington, is one addressed by him in 1782, to 

 Mr. Young, an English horticulturist, in which the 

 Father of his country, uses the following language : 



^Agriculture in the field and garden has ever been 

 among the most favourite of my amusements, though 

 I never have possessed much skill in the art, and 

 nine years, total inattention to it, has added nothing 

 to a knowledge which is best understood from prac- 

 tice.' He then desires his correspondent to send 

 him the following horticultural items : 



^A little of the best kind of cabbage seed for the 

 field culture — twenty pounds of the best turnip 

 seed — ten bushels of sanfoin seed — eight bushels of 

 winter vetches — two bushels of rye grass seed, and 



