AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES
\ˌaɡɹɪkˈʌlt͡ʃəɹə͡l səsˈa͡ɪ͡ətɪz], \ˌaɡɹɪkˈʌltʃəɹəl səsˈaɪətɪz], \ˌa_ɡ_ɹ_ɪ_k_ˈʌ_l_tʃ_ə_ɹ_əl s_ə_s_ˈaɪə_t_ɪ_z]\
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The first in the United States, the South Carolina Agricultural Society, was founded in 1784, the Philadelphia Agricultural Society in 1785, that of New York in 1791, that of Massachusetts in 1792. The first quasi-national society of this sort, the Columbian Agricultural Society, originated in a convention held in Washington in 1809.
By John Franklin Jameson
