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all the "trimmings," to make my visit interesting. Be- 

 sides his flourishing nursery business, Mr. S. has a very 

 snug cocoonery, which he finds quite profitable. Having 

 made free use of lime upon his worms this season, he has 

 found them quite healthy. Mr. Sinclair, Jr. has in the 

 city one of the most extensive agricultural ware-houses, 

 perhaps in the U. S. A large portion of the implements 

 that he sells are manufactured under the same roof and 

 in such a manner that he can warrant them good. From 

 the polite attention bestowed upon me, a stranger, I am 

 warranted in the conclusion that my agricultural friends 

 who have occasion to send orders to this establishment 

 for any kind of implements or seeds, will be done by as 

 they would be done unto. 



Another of the pleasant days of my life was that in 

 which I made the acquaintance of Mr. Sands, 1 the pub- 

 lisher of the American Farmer, the oldest agricultural 

 paper in the Union. To him and his lovely family I am 

 indebted for a very pleasant visit — such an one as 

 thousands of the friends of agricultural improvement of 

 the present day delight to interchange with one another. 

 Mr. Sands, although grown up in a city, and I might say 

 in a printing office, appears more like a plain unassum- 

 ing farmer than anything else. He is not only an advo- 

 cate, like nearly all the leading agriculturalists, of 

 temperance, but is also the publisher of a temperance 

 paper. The principal circulation of the Farmer is at 

 the south, and I earnestly hope will long continue to be 

 commensurate with its and its worthy publisher's worth. 



I also visited Mr. Hussey's 2 manufactory of his cele- 



1 Samuel Sands, for many years editor and publisher of the 

 American Farmer, Baltimore. 



2 Obed Hussey, born in Maine in 1792 ; died in 1860. Invented a 

 machine for reaping grain in 1833 which he manufactured at Balti- 

 more from 1838 to 1858. In that year he sold his patents and re- 

 tired from active business. Hussey was Cyrus Hall McCormick's 

 earliest and most formidable rival in the period when both men 

 were endeavoring to educate the public to the value of their ma- 

 chines. Hussey's machine was in reality more of a mower than 



