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get, and which every man that has "a home" should ever 

 remember, I undertook to find some one in this strange 

 place that was not altogether a stranger to me, although 

 I was personally unknown to all. It was no easy matter, 

 for all my agricultural friends seemed to be actively en- 

 gaged in busy preparation for the approaching carnival 

 at Syracuse. Mr. Tucker had took himself off from his 

 office, and was as busy among bulls and boars, and horses, 

 hogs, sheep and cows, superintending their embarkation 

 on board the rail-road cars, as though to that vocation 

 he had been "well bred." After seeing "all right" for 

 an early start the next morning, I soon found myself 

 quite at home in his house, where we were soon joined by 

 Mr. Bement, and at peep of day were seated in a cab or- 

 dered over night to take us out to the rail-road at the top 

 of the inclined plane, a mile or more from the city; for 

 be it known that the Albanians have not the most conven- 

 ient rail-road arrangements in the world. 



Our trip to Syracuse was a proud one — twenty-four 

 cars loaded with stock, and to which was attached a pas- 

 senger car occupied by Messrs. Tucker, E. P. Prentice, 1 

 Van Bergen, 2 Bement, Chapin, 3 and several other gentle- 

 men who owned the stock, or were interested in some 

 way — the day very pleasant, and the novelty of such a 

 train exciting more interest and attention than perhaps 

 ever was bestowed upon any train that ever passed over 

 the route, and our company all being in a high flow of 



1 Ezra P. Prentice, of Mount Hope, near Albany, breeder of 

 livestock. President, New York State Agricultural Society, 1850. 

 See description of his farm in Cultivator, n. s., 2:43-44 (February, 

 1845). An engraving of the residence faces page 41. 



2 Judge Anthony Van Bergen, Coxsackie, New York. President, 

 Greene County Agricultural Society, 1840. One of the best farm- 

 ers on the Hudson, according to the Cultivator, 8:176 (November, 

 1841). Vice-president, New York State Agricultural Society, 

 1843. 



3 Heman Chapin, East Bloomfield, Ontario County, New York. 

 Livestock breeder. Active in New York State Agricultural 

 Society. 



