Principal products
Key
| Textual Feature | Appearance |
|---|---|
| Whitman's hand | blue double overline and underline |
| Highlighting | yellow background with top and bottom border |
| Paste-on | gray box with black borders |
| Laid in | white box with black borders |
| Erasure | white text with dark gray background |
| Overwritten | brown with strikethrough |
[begin surface 1]
The measureless maize fields
of the earth—the tall, gracefull long‑
leafed maize—slender,
bright‑green—with tassels—
with beautiful ears, each folded
in its husks—the beautiful
maize!
[begin surface 3]
an entirely new system, theory,
& practice of Education,
viz: to do that which will
teach to think—every
one for himself—giving
facts, data
The honey and beeswax of
Missouri, Kentucky and
Tennessee,
The rice of South Carolina and
Georgia—The wool of
Ohio and of the Empire
State,—The tobacco
of Virginia and
Maryland
The cotton of Georgia Alabama,
Mississippi, South Carolina Georgia, South Carolina
and Texas,—The sugar of
Louisiana.
Principal products
Delaware—Wheat (The wheat of Delaware and Maryland [begin surface 2]
The 
an entirely new system, theory,
& practice of Education,
viz: to do that which will
teach to think—every
one for himself—giving
facts, data
The honey and beeswax of
Missouri, Kentucky and
Tennessee,
The rice of South Carolina