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226. AGRICULTURE, Land, labor and.—
The indifferent state of agriculture
among us does not proceed from a want of
knowledge merely; it is from our having such
quantities of to waste as we please. In
Europe the object is to make the most of
their land, labor being abundant; here it is
to make the most of our labor, land being
abundant.—
Notes on Virginia. Washington ed. viii, 332.
Ford ed., iii, 190.
(1782)
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