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to improve the condition of the Turks, except where the effect 
is immediate and palpable, as in the use of steamers, is exem¬ 
plified in all their implements of husbandry, which are of the 
rudest and most primitive kind. An effort was made some 
years ago, under the auspices of the Sultan, who seems to 
have been persuaded into the experiment rather by a paltry 
ambition to be considered a patron of public improvement, 
than by any real desire on his own part that it should suc¬ 
ceed, to get up a model farm, so that all who had eyes to see 
might witness the superiority of a judicious system of agricul¬ 
ture. An American gentleman, from one of the Southern 
States, of known capacity and intelligence, was placed at the 
head of it, and great promises were made, should the result 
prove satisfactory. Plows of the most approved pattern, and 
all the best implements of husbandry, were brought over from 
the United States and put in operation; but, notwithstanding 
