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Excerpt from An Address Delivered Before the New-Hampshire State Agricultural Society, at Its Second Annual Exhibition, in Manchester, October 8th, 9th and 10th, 1851
Sions and employments. In new-england there is land enough, and to Spare. It appears from the recent report of the valuar tion committee of Massachusetts, that if forest be excluded, not more than one-fourth of her remaining improvable territory is under cultivation. If the other three-fourths were only as highly improved, her agricultural products would be quadrupled; but much of it is capable of higher cultivation, and of producing crops many times larger than the present amount. This would enable her \to sustain a population of many millions. Away, then, with the apprehension that new-england cannot sustain, 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 ?ax from Egypt, which by recent improvements in mechani cal and chemical science, may yet become as important to the free labor' of the North, as cotton is to the slave labor of the South! What an amount of commerce 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! 1 By the introduction of the potato from South America, which has for ages fed the famishing 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 rising empire of the West, freights innu merable cars and ships, and feeds millions in our own and other countries!
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