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cow in one season — we can't do it out west, that ar' a 

 fact, stranger; but then we can live without it." 



That is the answer — "we can live" — yes, we can and 

 do live, the Lord knows how; but you never will till you 

 come and see. "One half the world don't know how 

 the other half live." — No if they did, they would try to 

 live better. If some of "your folks" "down East," only 

 knew how some of "our folks" "out West," lived, or 

 pretended to live by farming, they would be more con- 

 tented; and if western land spoilers knew how eastern 

 land skinners had skinned their land to death, they would 

 not go on doing just the same thing. But they won't 

 know, and, of course, won't do. 



Solon Robinson. 



Lake Court House, Ind., Dec. 6, 1845. 



Sheep on the Prairies. — No. 3. 



[New York American Agriculturist, 5:83-84; Mar., 1846] 



[December 10, 1845] 

 IN Vol. 4, page 55, I promised to give your readers 

 another article upon the above subject. 1 Miserable health 

 has been my excuse for this long delay in doing so, and 

 being now a close prisoner from the same cause, in my 

 house, will be my reason for saying a few words more 

 at this time. 2 



In my last communication I had brought the flock into 

 winter quarters. Whoever has had any experience in 

 the matter, knows how difficult it is to bring them in, 

 in good condition from the prairie grass. It is a fact 

 that never must be lost sight of, that luxuriant as the 

 grass is in the summer, and good as is the hay made 

 from it, the fall feed upon the prairie is as poor as poor 



1 The article referred to is not reprinted in this volume. 



J This illness continued for some months. The editor of the 

 American Agriculturist reported in the March issue, 1846 (5:91), 

 that Robinson's poor health would prevent his making a tour 

 South that season. 



