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great cause of improvement in agriculture, upon any 

 branch within the extensive knowledge of A. B. Allen, 

 or his brother, R. L. Allen, 1 of Buffalo, that they have 

 but to ask, and they will receive. If they wish similar 

 information from Chicago, address John S. Wright, 2 

 Esq. Editor of the "Union Agriculturist." 



No emigrant need fear any difficulty in bringing along 

 cattle and hogs. Several of the masters of steamboats 

 on the Lakes, seem to take great interest in the shipment 

 of choice stock to the West. I have had three lots of 

 pigs, shipped from Buffalo to Chicago during the last 

 summer, in the sole care of the master of the boats, and 

 from the appearance of the pigs on arrival, they must 

 have been treated like cabin passengers. In fact, none 

 but a brute could maltreat a Berkshire pig. 



In the shipment of furniture, emigrants need advice. 

 Great care should be taken in packing everything in the 

 most compact manner, in barrels and boxes, strongly 

 hooped and nailed; and very plainly marked with full 

 directions. The freight upon the canal is charged by the 

 pound. Upon the Lake, and upon storage in ware-houses, 

 it is charged by the barrel bulk. The best way is to con- 

 tract in New- York or Albany, for the whole charge of 



1 Richard Lamb Allen, born in Westfield, Massachusetts, October 

 20, 1803; died September 22, 1869. Agricultural editor and manu- 

 facturer of farm implements. Wrote a number of agricultural 

 books. Brother of A. B. Allen and L. F. Allen. Dictionary of 

 American Biography, 1:205-6. 



2 John Stephen Wright, born July 16, 1815, at Sheffield, Massa- 

 chusetts; died at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 16, 1874. 

 Agricultural editor and manufacturer of farm-implement machin- 

 ery. Selected as editor of the Union Agriculturist, founded by 

 the Union Agricultural Society in 1840. Several years later 

 Wright purchased the periodical from the society, and changed 

 its name to the Prairie Farmer. This magazine is still published 

 at Chicago. Wright was much interested in educational matters 

 and in the expansion of trade and commerce in Chicago. He was 

 an influential figure in the Middle West for many years. A 

 sketch of Wright is to appear in a forthcoming volume of the 

 Dictionary of American Biography. 



