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to turn his attention to farming, he had given considerable 



attention to rural subjects. As to the different kinds of 



stock, he came to the conclusion that on rich bottom lands, 



hogs were the most profitable, but uplands, where the land 



jjWas easily exhausted, ought to be cultivated in grasses for 



.tsheep, cattle and horses. Clover grew well in these river 



r-obottoms, so that when the land become less productive, it 



'j;Could be put down in clover and hogs turned upon it. He 



had noticed that the farmers in the hilly lands who raised 



corn, did not seem to prosper, and indeed the cornfields 



showed that they could not. Upon such land there could be 



no doubt that sheep would be the most profitale mode of 



farming. Last winter he had visited Tennessee, and found 



that cattle raising was pursued there to a great extent. In 



the winter the cattle lived upon the cane, and become fat 



upon it, more so than in the summer upon grass, for then 



'i they were troubled with flies. There cattle cost the farmer 



no more than the looking after them. 



Gov. Wright remarked that as the usual hour for adjourn- 

 »j,ing had arrived, he would move that the subject for next 

 evening's discussion should be wheat culture, including the 

 kinds best to be sown, the mode of putting in and harvest- 

 ing, &c. 



Which was agreed to; when the meeting adjourned. 



February 28, 1852. 



Mr. Cockrum of Gibson, was called to the chair: 



The subject discussed was " Wheat cultured 

 Mr. Murray of Elkhart, remarked that he resided in a 

 wheat growing portion of the State — his county, although 

 organized so late as 1830, now being the second county in 

 the State, in the production of wheat. It was settled chiefly 

 by Pennsylvania farmers, who were accustomed to do their 

 uwork well. 



