Excerpt from Usda Centennial Reference Aid for Speakers: May 1962 Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and Patrick Henry were others. Agricultural societies organized by such leading landholders-as early as the Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of Agriculture in 1785 With Washing ton an honorary member-filled the gap in disseminating agricultural informa tion in our new Republic until the then most important segment of its economy received Federal government recognition. That came first in the Patent Office. 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.