Broadcast: April 28, 1937

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Added: Apr 30 2005

On the 30th April 1789 George Washington was inaugurated as the first president of the United States. Every schoolboy knows his record as patriot, soldier and statesman. It is not perhaps so generally known that his greatest pride was to have been named also America’s first scientific farmer. If George Washington was distinguished for nothing else he would still merit a place of honor in American history for his far sighted efforts to conserve the soil and forests for future generations and for establishing the occupation of farming in the front ranks of honorable profession.