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sponsibility of naming a time and place for the meeting. 



We earnestly hope that some of you will promptly lend 

 your own names, and procure a few others in your vicin- 

 ity of such persons as desire to promote American Hus- 

 bandry : and that you will transmit them by mail in time 

 to reach Washington by the 10th of August, addressed 

 to H. L. Ellsworth, esq., Commissioner of Patents, for 

 Solon Robinson. 



We remain, fellow citizens, your agricultural friends 

 and humble servants, 



Solon Robinson, of Indiana. 

 James M. Garnett, of Virginia. 



July 24th, 1841. 



Traveling Memoranda — No. 1. 



[Albany Cultivator, 8:152; Sep., 1841] 



Laporte, Indiana, Aug. 6, 1841. 



Editors of Cultivator — I am now fairly on my great 

 Agricultural Tour. I left home yesterday. The roads 

 are dry and fine, for we have had but little rain of late ; 

 yet crops have not suffered much. The wheat, of which 

 there is an abundance of the very best quality, is nearly 

 all in stack or barn, and many are already thrashing and 

 getting it to market at 68 cts. a bushel, under the im- 

 pression that it will be no higher. 



Oats in the north of Indiana are not a full crop this 

 year, but corn, potatoes, and other things, give great 

 promise generally. It has been an excellent season for 

 the farmer to secure his hay and grain. But few showers, 

 and many cool days and nights. 



You will recollect that last year we suffered an almost 

 universal blight in wheat. A very few pieces are affected 

 this year, and as a matter of course, a very large crop 

 will be put upon the ground this fall. 



There is a new improvement in the thrashing machine 

 in operation here. The thrasher is mounted upon wheels, 

 and is drawn through the field, and the bundles taken 

 from the shooks, thrown into the machine, and the straw 



