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invitation to ride with him to his farm about seven miles 

 N.E. from the city, where I found probably the largest 

 and best stock of Berkshire hogs in Ohio. Mr. M. per- 

 sonally superintends his farm and breeding stock, and 

 also his pork packing and shipping house in the city. I 

 was highly pleased with him and his family, and his 

 stock and farm, and would gladly have spent another 

 day under his hospitable roof, but having already en- 

 gaged my passage in the fast mail for Baltimore this 

 day at 11 o'clock, I was compelled, as I have often been 

 of late, to forego the pleasure of a more lengthy visit 

 where I was made to feel that I was welcome — welcome 

 too, not as a friend or personal acquaintance, but one 

 who has, I am bound to believe, become favorably known 

 by name, to many of the readers of the Cultivator, as a 

 friend to agriculture. 



The river is too low to admit of steamers ascending 

 to Wheeling, and, therefore, in a few hours I shall be 

 on my way through the great and fertile state of Ohio, 

 right sorry that time will not allow me to take notes by 

 the way. Anxiety to reach Washington during the pres- 

 ent session of Congress, will also prevent me from adopt- 

 ing a slower mode of locomotion, and passing through 

 Pennsylvania, and accepting the public invitation which 

 I have just seen in the August number of the Cultivator, 

 to visit Mr. Wm. P. Kinzer, 1 and whom I now thus pub- 

 licly and cordially thank and assure that if it ever comes 

 in my way to become personally acquainted with him, I 

 shall not neglect it. And although it is not in my way of 

 business to "deliver lectures on agriculture," or to "pre- 

 pare myself," except upon the spur of the moment, for 

 anything, yet I hope when we do meet, that my Pennsyl- 

 vania friend will find that my conversational powers are 

 not entirely lacking. 



1 William Perm Kinzer, Spring Lawn Farm, Pequea, Pennsyl- 

 vania. Farmer, agriculturist. He included his invitation to Rob- 

 inson in a letter advocating a national agricultural organization. 

 Cultivator, 8:136. 



