Excerpt from The Farmers' Instructer, Vol. 1 of 2: Consisting of Essays, Practical Directions, and Hints for the Management of the Farm and the Garden
Tar. Importance of agriculture to all the substan tial interests of mankind is so fully recognised, that it may be deemed unnecessary to expatiate on the attention to which it is entitled, or to insist on the superior advantages which these nations must ever enjoy by whom it is the most skilfully practised. Some writers, indeed, without regarding the intimate connexion that subsists between every branch of human industry, have assigned to agriculture a eu periority over every other art; but while claim mg for it, to the fullest extent, pre-eminence over every mechanical trade, in all those considerations which mostly influence the choice of a profession, it would be inconsistent with that liberal spirit which forms so distinguished a feature in the char acter of the times, not to. Admit that it has no real title to precedence before the manufactures of the country; the object of both is to promote the gen eral weal, and it is unjust to ascribe any peculiar de.
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