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the agricultural interest is cemented together. This is 

 one of the great benefits of agricultural papers ; think of 

 it in future. And now I will subscribe myself your friend, 



Solon Robinson. 

 Lake C. H. Ind., March 24, 1843. 



Weather in Indiana. 



[Nashville Agriculturist, 4:58-59; Apr., 1843] 



[March 30, 1843] 

 To the Editors of the Tennessee State Agriculturist : 



Gentlemen : — Your March No. has just come to hand 

 — I have opened upon your article "Work for the Sea- 

 son" — "Oats if not sown should be put in immediately" — 

 "Irish Potatoes should be put in the last of March," &c. 

 &c. Heavens! Where am I, and where does that paper 

 come from mocking me with visions of warm spring. I 

 look abroad upon the face of nature spread out in gran- 

 deur before me. The broad rolling prairie stretches 

 away some 7 miles in view from my window. In view 

 did I say — rather it was in view last summer — "sow Oats 

 immediately" I read again. Verily they are nearly all 

 sown already — sown where they will need no "brushing 

 in." — "Put in Potatoes" — Oh yes, that we did last Sep- 

 tember, and since the middle of November, we have 

 hardly seen the ground where we put them in. And 

 those that have seen it are the worst off, for where the 

 ground is not covered with snow, it has frozen solid as 

 your mountains, Potatoes and all. Fancy to yourselves 

 if you can while sowing your Oats, that here, the snow 

 is more than two feet deep where it lies level, and a 

 violent Northeast snow storm now raging. So your ad- 

 vice for March, 1843, is not suited to this latitude. Never 

 before since the country has been known by white men, 

 has such a winter as this been known. Such a universal 

 cry for hay, straw, grain or anything that will keep the 

 life in cattle. And the supply is nearly exhausted — 

 many cattle have already perished, & thousands more 

 must die. It seems a very cruel death two, in such a 



