No new implement of husbandry, no new mechanical force or chemical principle, no new process of labor or line of economy is withheld from the great commonwealth of mankind.

As the broad skies above, as the sun and moon, and stars, as the winds, the rains, the dews, the birds and bees of heaven over-ride and ignore, in their missions, the boundaries of jealous nations, so all the great activities of agriculture prove their lineage by following the same generous rule.
They are bounded by no nationalities.

They are shut up in no narrow enclosure of self, but are put out as new vesicles of light to brighten the general illumination of the world.
The department in which Jonas Webb attained to his position and capacity of usefulness was peculiarly marked by this characteristic.
In a certain sense, it occupied a higher range of interest than that section of agriculture which is connected solely with the growing of grain, grass, and other crops.

His great and distinguishing husbandry was the cultivation of animal life.

To make two spires of grass grow where only one grew before has been pronounced as a great benefaction; and greater still are the merit and the gain of making one grow where nothing grew before.