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and grass at every sowing — or turnips and grass occa- 

 sionally, for fall feed. But it is not necessary here to 

 have rich feed to fatten up the sheep previous to winter, 

 for they are always fat. 



In the article to which I allude, and in this, are many 

 facts that ought to open the eyes of wool growers in the 

 Eastern states, for if the business should be undertaken 

 at the West exclusively, those who pasture upon land 

 worth $100 an acre cannot compete with those that pas- 

 ture upon land worth ten shillings an acre, and free from 

 tax for five years. 



I intend shortly to give you another article upon this 



subject and other things appertaining to the cultivation 



of the prairies of the great and growing West. 1 I hope 



also to become more intimately acquainted with your 



readers the coming winter. In the mean time I am yours 



and their friend, 



Solon Robinson. 



Lake C. H. Sept., 1842. 



Odds and Ends. 



[Albany Cultivator, 9:160; Oct., 1842 2 ] 



[October ?, 1842] 

 Scrap Book. — If young men, I have a good mind to 

 say young women too, who lack wherewithal to amuse 

 themselves during the long evenings of winter, would 

 procure a few quires of paper, (that called "post office 

 paper," is suitable,) and stitch them neatly together, and 

 commence saving scraps from the newspapers, and past- 



1 The editor expressed his hope "for the punctual fulfilment of 

 his promise" and continued: "We have been a little apprehensive 

 from his long silence on agricultural matters, that he had taken 

 to politics or some other fashionable pursuit, or was lost in a 

 cane-brake; or mayhap, had taken a bear prisoner, as the Irish- 

 man took the six grenadiers, who proved themselves such undis- 

 ciplined captives, that they not only would'nt go at Pat's bidding, 

 but even prevented the doughty hero's going himself." 



2 Reprinted in part in the Dollar Farmer, Louisville, Kentucky, 

 1:110 (January, 1843). 



