36 GENESEO. 



CHAPTER VI. 



Arrival at Geneseo Mr Wordsworth His extensive 

 landed property Colonel Wordsworth's farm His 

 stock His flock No green crops Treatment of 

 stock in winter His rotation of crops Remarks on 

 his system Mr Wordsworth's tenantry Aversion to 

 granting leases Agricultural horses American 

 plough Labourer's wages and hours Col. Words- 

 worth's establishment of labourers Geneseo flats . 

 Price of land Militia General. 



May 1841. 



I arrived at Geneseo about nine o'clock in 

 the evening of the 20th, having found the 

 country as I came along, a continuation of the 

 enchanting scenery I had previously passed 

 through. 



Next morning I called on Mr Words- 

 worth, one of the largest if not the most ex- 

 tensive land-owner in the State of New York, 



