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Short Horns, which the great drouth that prevails here- 

 abouts has brought into the stable for feed, as Mr. Neff 

 has determined for the purpose of getting them more 

 generally introduced into common use through the coun- 

 try, to offer the whole lot at auction a few days hence, 

 on a long credit, and is, therefore, obliged to feed them, 

 to keep them in a fit condition for sale. He also has a 

 very fine lot of hogs, of the Berkshire and Irish Grazier 

 breeds. Mr. Neff is an extensive pork packer, and al- 

 though he prefers the Berkshire for his own use, yet 

 thinks that among a people that make pork, as Pindar 

 did his razors, to sell, without regard to quality, that a 

 larger breed would be more profitable. 



Mr. Neff is also a successful cultivator of the grape, 

 though by no means to so great an extent as Mr. Long- 

 worth 1 of this city, who is probably one of the largest 

 vintners in the Union. 



I saw on Mr. Neff' s farm a specimen of hedge, of the 

 Osage Orange, that for beauty, and probably will also 

 be for usefulness, before any other specimen of hedge 

 that I have ever seen in this country. As soon as this 

 is sufficiently grown and proved, Mr. Neff will give some 

 account of it that will be useful to others. After spend- 

 ing a delightful day, we rode into town fully impressed 

 with the truth of the saying, that 



"God made the country, and man made the town ;" 

 or in other words, that the beauty, comforts, and enjoy- 

 ments of a country life are far superior to those of the 

 town. 



The 25th I spent in that very busy occupation of see- 

 ing every thing, but more particularly in examining the 

 great extension of the city, and great increase of manu- 

 facturing establishments, all of which indicate an im- 

 proved state of agriculture, for we must constantly bear 



1 Nicholas Longworth, born January 16, 1782, in Newark, New 

 Jersey; died February 10, 1863. Lawyer, real-estate operator, 

 and patron of the arts; chiefly distinguished as a horticulturist for 

 the introduction of new varieties of grapes and strawberries. See 

 Dictionary of American Biography, 11:393-94. 



