322 Notes on certain parts of the State of Ohio. 
way ; ibut “| late years our merchants have been buying 
hem, and either sell their lard and pork down the river, or 
ship it to the Atlantic states. This year two merchants of 
= oe have put shone ady thousand pounds of lard; 
thousand Soe Uk pickled pork, and forty-five thou- 
d pounds of Sipe: A: a vert of which was raised 
ia nth county, . 
he price of land varies from one ‘dollar, to fifty dollars 
yer acre. The bottom jands on the Ohio are most valua- 
le ; th -on the Muskingum, next in value—the creek bot- 
toms, : and rich uplands, are next in demand, and sell from 
two to four dollars per acre, as they are more or less con- 
veniently situated, in the neighbourhood of mills, public 
pees se ar. is Bo a ann ame ts of fine —— 
shan ibour generally Poe per cent, ogi than : 
thi Pig ub 
Chos ses, “gual iid: or D anporiee oe 
“phe grasses in cultivation in the county of Washington ¢ are 
aus imported. ‘Those cultivated in meadows, are 
imothy or Herds grass, Red Clover, and “ Red-top’? grass. 
The pastures are occupied by native grasses, white clover, 
and two kinds of spear grass. Our lands are so full of the 
seeds of white clover, that on ploughing them, the white 
cathe’ springs up spontaneously ; and if the clover become 
c3 ie ota 
aha 3 
as ee to plough the by successive ears of — ‘, 
person ¥ was an aoe that he sawa piece of k 
saree with white clover. in consequence of its eine ma- 
