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iDg cattle ; these, of course, are necessary to a dairy, and so far it is an encour- 

 agement. The next, and indeed the great question is, as to the market for the 

 products of the dairy. And of this, let facts answer. The most of the cheese 

 consumed in our mines, our pineries, and on this entire frontier, is made on the 

 Western Reserve in Ohio, and transported 2000 miles by the rivers; and having 

 changed hands several times, each of which must have some profit to pay for 

 freight, storage, commission, Arc, the price realized by the producer cannot equal 

 more than half the cost to the consumer. Having lived myself on that Reserve, 

 and having some knowledge, by experience, of the cost of clearing land, and get- 

 ting it into grass, the crops obtained, &c., I am certain that cattle can be raised 

 and kept in this region for one-half the expense necessary to be incurred for the 

 same purpose in that country; and, of course, if the products of the dairy here 

 equal the products there, per head of cattle, and the producer here realizes no more 

 than the producer does there, the business must be much more profitable here 

 than there. But if the producer here realizes double what the producer does 

 there, and that too at one half the expense for raising and keeping cattle, then 

 the business is proportionally more profitable. The only difterence, and the only 

 drawback in this country in this business, is the diflference in the wages of hired 

 help. But the difference in costs and prices in favor of this country, will more 

 than balance the difterence in wages. 



The extent of our "Horti cultural" experiments are but limited. That the 

 country is adapted to the growth of fruits, is evident from the fact, that the wild 

 fruits indigenous to this climate are very adundant: such as crab apple, plum of 

 .some dozen or twenty varieties, grapes, cherries, currant.s, raspberries, blackberries, 

 strawberries, and several other varieties. 



The French who first settled Detroit, planted apple trees, pear trees, and 

 various other kinds of fruits. And judging from that fact, I expected to find 

 such trees in abundance in this region. But in this I was disappointed ; finding 

 of their planting but a few- apple trees, and these of an indiflferent quality. 



About the year 1830, General Street, the Indian agent, brought a lot of apple 

 trees from Kentucky to this place, and set them out on a lot at the north end of 

 this prairie. They have had but little care, and are natural fruit, yet they have 

 grown well, and are very fruitful, when not injured by the frost. In 1838, 1 pro- 

 cured fifty grafted fruit trees from Kentucky, the nearest place from which I 

 could then procure them. But the distance of transportation and change of cli- 

 mate must have aftected them. Furthermore, the warmth of the steamboat 

 caused them to bud in the moss in which they w'ere done up, so that but four or 

 five of them lived. I have since tried seedlings of this country's growth, and 

 thoiigh I have had bad luck — the mice and careless ploughmen injuring the trees — 

 yet there are some fine and very promisirig orchards in the country. What is 



