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While in Philadelphia, I met with our mutual friend, 

 C. N. Bement, and with him visited several places of 

 interest, including the Wilmington Fair. We also visited 

 Westchester, and enjoyed the hospitality of Dr. Darling- 

 ton, known as one of the most scientific writers on agri- 

 culture. We also visited the Paschal Morris' and Joseph 

 Cope's farms, as well as many other of the highly culti- 

 vated farms of the Brandywine hills. 



Mr. Cope is known as an importer of Durham stock 

 and South Down sheep, a beautiful lot of which he had 

 on hand. I look upon this as the best breed of sheep for 

 general use in the country. Those desirous of purchas- 

 ing, may depend upon the genuine article from Mr. Cope. 



Mr. Morris is a large breeder of Durhams. We saw 

 here a horse power churn, which makes 100 lbs. of butter 

 at one operation. The apparatus is simple and cheap. 

 Any person desirous of obtaining information about it, 

 will find by making application to Mr. M., that he is a 

 "gentleman farmer" — which means a man of intelligence, 

 and who is always ready to devote his time and abilities 

 to the promotion of improvement among his brethren. 



I wish he would also publish a description, and his 

 opinion, of a wheat sowing machine that we saw at his 

 farm. 



At one of the farms which we visited, I was struck 

 with the appearance of a fine lot of fat oxen, fed entirely 

 upon grass, which is one of the most luxuriant and 

 profitable crops that grow upon these hills. These oxen 

 are driven, while lean, from the north part of Ohio, and 

 no doubt many of them had while young been driven 

 from the interior of Indiana or Illinois to Ohio, there 

 used for work while in their prime, and then driven to 

 Pennsylvania to eat up the surplus grass, and in turn 

 to be eaten up by the surplus population of Philadelphia. 



At the same farm, I saw a very simple and cheap 

 apparatus that forces water forty or fifty rods, up a 

 steep hill, to the house and barn. A lever, about twenty 

 feet long, with a weight at one end and a water box at 



