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through the pasture, and always affords water, because 

 it is fed by springs, and that "swale" would give a valu- 

 able crop of grass if it were ditched ; but as it is not, it 

 affords a most luxuriant growth of alders, and these 

 serve as a nice shade for the trout. It would be a pity 

 to disturb them. 



Here is a stone wall. It stands in the place of a fence. 

 Be a little careful about climbing it, as it was built upon 

 a new principle. Having been told that rails would make 

 good ties, or binders, in a cobble-stone wall, the builder 

 put them in lengthwise instead of going into the wasteful 

 practice of cutting them up and putting them across, and 

 the consequence is that an occasional broadside caves 

 away. 



Ah! what have we in this field? Ton my word it is 

 buckwheat. Let us put on our spectacles and take a 

 good look at it. It is very small, certainly, but is as good 

 as could be expected from such a specimen of "Yankee 

 Farming!!" 



In the next number of the Agriculturist, I will give a 

 reverse of the picture. 



New York, Oct. 2d, 1849. SOLON Robinson. 



Mr. Robinson's Tour. — No. 12. 



[October 6, 1849^] 



A Flight Through Massachusetts. 



[New York American Agriculturist, 8:372-73; Dec, 1849] 



[October 25, 1849] 



Yankee Farming, Continued. — The Contrast. — I will 

 now take the residence of Mr. E. R. Mudge,^ at Swamscot 



' This article, written October 6, 1849, at New York, but covering 

 the events of May 9, 1849, is printed ante, 219 ff. 



^ Enoch Redington Mudge, merchant and farmer. Born in Orring- 

 ton, Maine, March 22, 1812. Left home at fifteen. As the result of 

 land speculations, failed in 1835 to the amount of twenty thousand 

 dollars. Managed the Astor House, New York, for four years. 



