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and the same manual assistance, can plow two acres of strong land in one day, and plow- 

 it as deep and as well as a team of " limber" New-York horses, we shall give more weight 

 to his authority. The time has not yd arrived for a " Britisher" — so self-styled, only 

 — to read the Yankee a lesson in the breeding of usnfal horses. 



In some other branches of the exhibition at Syracuse, Professor Johnston" was quite 

 as discriminating as in the stock department. " Farm and dairy produce, however, and 

 fruits, receive much attention from the New-York State Society, and had an appropriate 

 place assigned to them under the tents and sheds which were scattered on the grounds." 

 In his ver3' particular notice of the fruits — aud what we have quoted is all of it — we have 

 much to admire in the extent of his information. An unsophisticated man would have 

 supposed that a tent, regal in size, 120 by 80 feet in area, containing shelves placed am- 

 phitheatre-like the full length of its oval sides, and filled with thousands of the choicest 

 specimens of apples, pears, quinces, grapes, peaches, plums, and melons, all grovm inthe 

 open air, and of the most exquisite flavor, garnished with beautiful collections of flowers, 

 and by their tempting luxuriance attracting the attention of a dense crowd during the 

 three days of their exhibition, would have excited a remark beyond simply naming their pre- 

 sence in general terms. But true to the instinctive taste of his own foggy hills, where not a 

 thing of them all is grown out of doors, he no doubt regarded them with the like affection 

 of the old laird at the sight of the sugar-plums: " Hoot mon! and what is all this bau- 

 bee trumpery to a bicker of kail broose?" In his after observations, our traveler remarks 

 somewhat upon our apple culture, none of which remarks are new, and part of them in- 

 correct. Of apples, he says, " those varieties which are best for the table are unfit alojie 

 to make a palatable cider." " AVhere ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be Avise," said a 

 much abler man than Professor Johnston, and it were equally wise for his own credit 

 that he should speak of that only of which he knew something. He has however intro- 

 duced the extensive orchards of Mr. Pell, and their management, but draws no conclu- 

 sions. In this place, he saj-s that Mr. P. has 2,000 Newtown Pippin apple trees in full 

 bearing. In the second volume he states, that " Mr. Pell has 20,000 apple trees, chiefly 

 Newtown Pippins." We should really like to know hoiv many apple trees Mr. Pell has 

 got in his orchard, so that the disputed question of two thousand, or twenty thousand — 

 for there is som2 difference in the number — may be set at rest. 



Discharging creditably, though in manner and taste quite mistakenlj', his public duties 

 at Syracuse, he extends his rambles to the fine farm of Mr. GEDDES,a few miles out of town, 

 which gives him opportunity for some geological remarks upon soils — all borrowed — and 

 modes of agriculture, not new. He then leaves in the railwaj' for Buffalo on the 15th, 

 after a two and a half days' sojourn in the richest agricultural county of the state. " In- 

 troduced to a gentlemanly-looking physician," he soon apologizes for the rudeness of an 

 answer which he gave him to a question which we are quite sure no " gentlemanly-look- 

 ing" man of any profession would have addressed to him; and then a commentary on 

 manners and language in general, in which neither the words " Britisher" nor " Trans- 

 atlantic Cousins," occur. Joe Smith and company, of the Mormon faith, now come in 

 for a share of his reflections, followed up by a fling at the fanaticism of his followers, in 

 whicli he candidly admits that a large accession to their force had come from England to 

 sustain the open polygamy of Smith, when living, and Brigham Young, now chief apos- 

 tle and leader of the tribe. Agriculture — of which every idea that he has, as applied to the 

 region of which he discourses, is given by some previously introduced acquaintance, or 

 passenger in the cars — receives a part of his attention; and politics, forms of govern 



