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Excerpt from Address Delivered Before the Hampshire Agricultural Society: At Its Second Annual Exhibition, in Amherst, October 22, 1851 Away then with the apprehension that New England cannot sus tain, by her agricultural products, her swarming population! She may not only greatly multiply her present crops, but introduce other products equally important with any now under cultivation. What a vast amount of trade has resulted by the introduction of flax from Egypt, which by recent improvements in mechanical and chemical science, may yet become as important to the free labor of the N orth, as cotton is to the slave labor of the South! What an amount of com merce has been created by the introduction of the Mulberry from Eastern Asia into Europe, which gives employment to millions, and clothes other millions with their silken fabrics! By the introduction of the potato from South America, which has for ages fed the famish ing millions of Ireland, and the partial loss of which within a few years, has produced starvation and misery in that ill-fated country, and such pecuniary loss and lamentation through the civilized world! By the introduction of wheat which gives immense wealth to the ris ing empire of the West, freights innumerable cars, and ships, and feeds millions in our own and in other countries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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