36 GENESEO. 



CHAPTER VI. 



Arrival at Geneseo Mr Wordsworth His extensive 

 landed property Colonel Wordsworth s farm His 

 stock His flock No green crops Treatment of 

 stock in winter His rotation of crops Remarks on 

 his system Mr Wordsworth s tenantry Aversion to 

 granting leases Agricultural horses American 

 plough Labourer s wages and hours Col. Words 

 worth s establishment of labourers Geneseo flats 

 Price of land Militia General. 



May 1841. 



I arrived at Geneseo about nine o clock in 

 the evening of the 20th, having found the 

 country as I came along, a continuation of the 

 enchanting scenery I had previously passed 

 through. 



Next morning I called on Mr Words^ 

 worth, one of the largest if not the most ex 

 tensive land-owner in the State of New York, 



