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have long been accustomed. All are sensible of the over- 

 supply of cotton ; but who ever thinks of the over supply 

 of negroes. Many planters in Mississippi assured me 

 that they did not make five per cent, upon their capital, 

 and I assure you that their land is deteriorating in value 

 more than five per cent, per annum. 



Flight Through Connecticut, Continued. 



[New York American Agriculturist, 8:346-47; Nov., 1849] 



[October 2, 1849] 



Yankee Farming. — After leaving the neighborhood of 

 the "Old-Pond Meadow," I went on towards Boston. Now 

 there are a great many other farms in Connecticut and 

 Massachusetts, that have valuable tracts upon them, just 

 as badly cultivated, or rather neglected, as the one de- 

 scribed at page 321 of the last number of the Agricul- 

 turist. Orchards are to be seen all along the road, that 

 look as though they have neither been pruned nor ma- 

 nured since "the year one." 



There is around some of the old farm houses of New 

 England, a peculiar look that is to be seen no where else. 

 The house, a large square fabric, with a great stone chim- 

 ney in the centre of the gambrel roof, standing upon one 

 side of the road and close to it, at that, with an ancient 

 mound, the debris of long-gone wood piles, immediately 

 in front ; and right opposite, stands the barn, with a fine 

 display, along the fence adjoining, of old carts, wagons, 

 sleds, harrows, plows, and stone drags, while there is 

 abundant evidence, in the shape of droppings, to show 

 that the cows have nightly possession of the road be- 

 tween. 



Upon the right hand of the house, is the old orchard, 

 fenced with a post and rail stone wall, richly ornamented 

 with elder and poke berry, together with a stock of run- 

 ning blackberry vines. In the corner next the house and 

 road, and not any too far from where the family eat and 

 sleep, is the old hog pen, with a door open to the road, 



