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thened by taxes, and other difficulties, growing out of the oppres- 

 sive system to which he is subjected, that he cannot prosper. 

 With all his industry and economy, and close calculations, he 

 must be impoverished. But in this country there is nothing to 

 prevent any one who possesses industry and energy of character, 

 from succeeding in business, and rising into wealth and distinc- 

 tion by his own exertions. In thi > respect we are a highly favor- 

 ed nation ; and we owe it to other nations, and the world, to set 

 an example of industry and economy, and virtuous enterprise. 



SENECA COUNTY. 



The increasing attention of the farmers of Seneca to improved 

 systems of agriculture, is producing a happy effect, and although 

 adverse causes have for two years past interfered with the quan- 

 tity and quality of the wheat crop, yet an increase of labor has 

 been bestowed on the soil with evident advantage and economy. 



The ravages of the wheat-fly in central New- York, has decidedly 

 lessened the product of wheat, and if the cause continues, it will 

 draw attention to other and more profitable objects, until the evil 

 may have passed by or been remedied 5 in fact the feeding and 

 fatting of cattle has on several farms superseded the wheat crop, 

 and dairy products have been increased, not from this cause only, 

 but from the fact also that as facilities for furnishing milk and 

 cream to the consumers of the city of New-York from the once 

 famed butter counties of Orange and other river and adjacent regions 

 inciease, the vendors of butter and cheese eagerly seek the more in- 

 land sources, inducing a supply by a large demand. Thus stimu- 

 lated, the dairies of Seneca have been extended and have yielded 

 results equal to the best efforts of Orange as regards quality. 



The exhibition of cattle at the autumnal show, indicated a great 

 impr'>vemcnt in tlie several breeds and their general condition. 

 One hundred and thirteen head of cattle were entered for pre- 

 miums, very many of them exhibiting points of excellence credi- 

 table to the judgment and management of their owners. 



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