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ease, there are as many more who act as a great balance-wheel to the 

 body politic, intent on plain republicanism and progressive enterprise. 

 Four miles south of Greorgetown is the farm of Capt. N. Craig, a 

 gentleman of strong passions and prejudices, but a man of superior 

 common sense ; he was for eleven years keeper of the State's Prison 

 at Frankfort. His farm consists of near five-hundred acres of 

 arable land; he pays a good deal of attention to pomology, grap- 

 eries and the nursery business ; seems to pride himself very much 

 in his own experience, and from his marked success in graperies and 

 manufacture of native wines, has this spring set out an extensive 

 vineyard, intending soon, by the help of his German vine-dressers, 

 to come completely in competition with Mr. Longworth and other 

 vine-growers in the vicinity of Cincinnati. The Captain has two 

 artificial ponds, fed by living springs of water, in which are thou- 

 sands of gold-fish sporting, for which he usually finds a ready market. 



"WOODBURN FARM. 



In an adjoining county — Woodford — I made the acquaintance of 

 K. AiTCHESON Alexander, Esq. This gentleman is the leading 

 farmer, as he is the most opulent, in the State. Thinking it might 

 be interesting to the readers of the Cincinnatus, from the known 

 urbanity of Mr. A. who took me into the various departments of 

 his extensive domain, I took down the following statistical inform- 

 ation in regard to what he is pleased to call Woodhurn Farm. This 

 is a general stock farm of two hundred and eighty acres, embracing 

 agriculture, breeding cattle, horses and sheep. The cattle are of 

 the short-horned Durham breed ; also, Ayrshire and Gruernsey 

 breed, the cattle kept for dairy purposes. His dairy house is one of 

 the neatest, coolest, and most desirable places imaginable — the cool- 

 ing trenches, supplied with fresh running spring water, are laid in 

 hydraulic lime. In the upper story, the proprietor expects to make 

 a cool retreat for visitors, wherein to drink rich cool milk and eat 

 cold collations. 



Mr. A. has probably the finest breed of horses in the United 

 States, and they may be classed as follows: Fifteen race horses, 

 three of which belong to others who are having them trained here. 

 Thirty-two blooded horses, mares and colts. One hundred and fifty 

 work horses, mares and colts, and nine trotting horses. Included 

 in this number are two fine stallions, imported. Besides these, there 

 are thirty-nine mares and nine colts belonging to others, left there 



