Excerpt from Transactions of the Essex Agricultural Society, Vol. 2: For 1839
Mr. President and Gentlemen:
I would gladly have been excused from attempting to bring a contribution to the exhibitions of your Society, until such a time as I could offer something that was nearly ripened. There are, no doubt, matured grains and delicious fruits, in the field in which I am honored with the privilege of gathering; but having an unpractised eye, every thing there seems to me unripe and unfit to set before this company. How can it be otherwise? Only a little more than two years ago, these hands had had no acquaintance with the plough and the scythe since the days of my boyhood. Up to the present hour, I have never cultivated a rood of land that belonged to myself, or in the productions of which I had any direct pecuniary interest.
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