Item #37611 Report of a select committe [sic] on a petition of the Berkshire Association for the Promotion [of] Agriculture and Manufactures. February 21, 1817. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. Agriculture, Congress United States, House.

Report of a select committe [sic] on a petition of the Berkshire Association for the Promotion [of] Agriculture and Manufactures. February 21, 1817. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table.

Washington [D.C.]: [Printed by William A. Davis], 1817. 2 pp. 8vo. Removed. First edition. A very good copy, edge worn, folded, with War Department Library stamp on title. American Imprints 42680. Item #37611

Number 95 in brackets on top. The Committee recommends that there be an establishment of a national Agriculture board, noting that different parts of Europe and the U.S. have already instituted such boards, "under the auspices of government, and have diffused much useful information, and contributed to... public welfare." Notes that Geo. Washington, in 1796, recommended to Congress that there be a national Agricultural Board. OCLC shows only four original, unbound holdings.

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