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where you are, until some better pioneer has made a 

 beginning for you. Don't come here to be miserable, for 

 generally we are a happy race, "full, fat, and saucy;" 

 and some of us, after we have got a "good beginning," 

 get a little lazy. Corn and hogs will grow without much 

 work, and "hog and hominy" will support life ; and "who 

 would work when he was able to do without it?" If you 

 answer that you would, and that you and your family can 

 "make a beginning" in a log cabin, you may start for 

 the west. But don't forget the advice I gave you in my 

 first number, and don't forget your well meaning old 

 friend "the squatter." 



Solon Robinson. 

 Lake C. H., la., Nov. 1, 1840. 



"American Society of Agriculture," 



"To elevate the character and standing of the cultivators 



of the American soil." 



[Albany Cultivator, 8:33-34; Feb., 1841] 



[December 27, 1840] 



Messrs. Gaylord 1 & Tucker — My worthy friends — 

 You and many of your readers, will recollect the article 

 published in No. 3, vol. 5, May, 1838, upon this subject. 2 

 It was designed to call the attention of the public to the 

 subject, and Judge Buel, in a note says — "Mr. Robinson's 

 proposition meets our hearty approbation; and should it 

 be favorably responded to by our cotemporaries who con- 

 duct agricultural journals, and whose opinions upon the 

 subject we respectfully solicit, — we shall give it our cor- 

 dial support, — and devise some means if others do not do 

 it, to organize an association," for one of the noblest 



1 Willis Gaylord, born Bristol, Connecticut, in 1792 ; died at 

 Camillus, New York, March 27, 1844. Agricultural editor and 

 writer. Associated with Luther Tucker as joint editor of the 

 Cultivator, 1840-1844. See Dictionary of American Biography, 

 7:199-200. 



2 Ante, 87-90. 



