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Nebuchadnezzar-like, I am ever "turned out to grass," 

 may it be upon such fat pastures as I saw there. At the 

 farm of Samuel Worth, 1 I found a most beautiful drove 

 of Ohio oxen — fine, large, red, and upon such grass I need 

 not say, very fat. This I find is a common practice, to 

 drive lean oxen from Ohio, to take on a coat of Pennsyl- 

 vania fat; and from this source comes the fine juicy beef 

 with which your fine market houses abound. Many of 

 these same cattle are driven into Ohio while quite young, 

 from still further West, so that the places of their 

 nativity and death are often a thousand or more miles 

 apart. And as the great West improves, her almost 

 boundless pastures will furnish an everlasting supply for 

 the Eastern markets. 



At the farm of Joseph Cope, 2 I found an excellent 

 specimen of South Down sheep, and a choice Durham 

 bull, selected by himself in England. It would do some 

 of our Western farmers (slovens, rather,) good to visit 

 this farm, to see a place for every thing, and every thing 

 in its place, in doors and out. For be it known that there 

 is one within the house well worthy of the name of 

 "Farmer's Wife." 



At the farm of Paschall Morris, 3 we — I forgot to say 

 that in this excursion, I was accompanied by Caleb N. 

 Bennet, 4 of Albany, whom I met in Philadelphia — we saw 

 much to admire. A farm under a high state of improve- 

 ment — a beautiful lot of short-horns — Berkshire hogs, 



1 Samuel Worth (born Chester County, Pennsylvania, December 

 6, 1779; died August 20, 1862), probably a descendant of Thomas 

 Worth who emigrated to Pennsylvania at the time of William 

 Penn. The Worth family devoted their time principally to agri- 

 cultural pursuits. Historic Homes and Institutions and . . . 

 Memoirs of Chester and Delaware Counties, Pennsylvania, 1:190 

 (Lewis Publishing Company, 1904). 



2 Joseph Cope, of East Bradford Township, Chester County, 

 Pennsylvania. 



s Paschall Morris, of Allerton Farm, East Bradford Township, 

 Chester County. 

 ' 'Caleb N. Bement. 



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