...of agriculture has been recognized since America's beginning. George Washington made this statement: "With reference either to individual or national welfare, agriculture is of primary importance." I don't think anyone here would disagree with that idea. You all realize that agriculture not only...

...fostering care of the government in promoting agriculture, the predominant interest of the country. " In proportion as nations advance in population and other circumstances of maturity," he said, " this truth becomes more apparent, and renders the cultivation of the soil more an object...