"Much food is in the tillage of the poor, but there is that
which is destroyed for want of Judgment."—PROV. 13: 23.

"Of all arts, tillage or agriculture is doubtless the most
useful and necessary, as being the source whence the nation
derives its subsistence. The cultivation of the soil causes
it to produce an infinite increase. It forms the surest
resource and the most solid fund of riches and commerce for
a nation that enjoys a happy climate.... The cultivation of
the soil deserves the attention of the Government, not only
on account of the invaluable advantages that flow from it,
but from its being an obligation imposed by nature on
mankind."—VATTEL.