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had not gone to the fountain head for his bulls, 

 as one of them was a coarse ungainly animal, 

 and the other two evidently spurious. 



Hitherto, I had not had an opportunity of 

 seeing any sheep. I now saw a small flock of 

 Merino ewes belonging to Mr Southam, which 

 he proposes to cross with the Cotswold. The 

 Merinos are ugly unsightly animals, but I 

 was told they are universally preferred through 

 out the States. 



Round Albany, the soil is sandy and poor, 

 requiring much manure to make it productive. 

 I could not discover that any better system of 

 agriculture was followed here, than I had ob 

 served in other places. 



I here met with two Kentucky farmers, with 

 whom I had a good deal of conversation re 

 garding the objects of my enquiry. They 

 mentioned that their soil is of the richest de 

 scription that they can, without manure, 

 raise wheat and Indian corn, crop after crop, 

 ad injinitum, but, being 1000 miles from mar 

 kets, chiefly overland, grain, beyond what is 

 required for their own consumpt, is to them 



