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feed a small stock, but where now more hay than is 

 needed has been made the last year. Of course, manure 

 is not neglected. Mr S. has only 150 acres; yet thinks 

 he has about twice as much as he ought to own, to culti- 

 vate profitably. 



The Norman Horses. — Mr. Stryker thinks the kind in- 

 troduced by Mr. Edmund Harris,^ of this state, are the 

 best farm horses ever brought into the country. 



I observe with pleasure, that the people at Spotswood 

 are so far advanced in civilisation as to exclude swine 

 from the privilege, long enjoyed by the family, of running 

 in the streets, and consequently obliging everybody to pay 

 a double portion of the enormous fence tax of the United 

 States. Well, we all learn wisdom by slow degrees. 



Visit to James Buckeleiv.^ — Nov. 12th, I spent with 

 one of the most remarkable men in New Jersey — one who 

 is more worthy of honor than Gen. Scott, Gen. Taylor, 

 Henry Clay, or Daniel Webster, because, as a farmer, he 

 has done more good than they have, as warriors and 

 politicians. James Buckelew, of Middlesex Co., his na- 

 tive place, well known throughout the state as one of the 

 most enterprising men of business and wealth, is also 

 one of the best farmers in New Jersey. Although not yet 

 50 years old, he has made all his wealth by his own indus- 

 try, and the management of those he has employed to 

 labor, and probably has cleared up and improved, or ren- 

 ovated, more worn-out land than any other man in the 



' Edward Harris, Moorestown, New Jersey, introduced the Nor- 

 man horse into this country and advocated its breeding for farm 

 in the A7nerican Farmer, 4th series, 1:151 (November, 1845), taken 

 purposes. A picture and description of one of these horses is given 

 from the Farmers' Cabinet, 6:282-83 (April, 1842). 



' James Buckelew, Jamesburg, New Jersey. Diversified his crops 

 and specialized as an orchardist, having thirty thousand trees. For 

 a description of his farming operations, see American Agricultur- 

 ist, 9:333-34 (November, 1850) and 10:16, 29 (January, 1851). 

 First president of the Jamesburg Agricultural Society, formed 

 April 27, 1853, and of the Middlesex County Agricultural Society, 

 formed November 11, 1856. Woodward, Carl R., The Development 

 of Agriculture in New Jersey, 1640-1880 . . . , 190-91 (New 

 Brunswick, 1927). 



