96 MR MARX S FARM. 



the other residing on and farming their estate, 

 consisting of 800 acres of rich alluvial soil, on 

 James river, two miles out of Richmond. I 

 was kindly invited by the banker to inspect 

 the farm, and I gladly, along with him, there 

 visited his brother. 



I found the whole farm under a system of 

 tillage, the crops being wheat, Indian corn, 

 and clover, with a considerable breadth of oats. 



I had observed, from the time I entered 

 Virginia, that oats is a crop much cultivated 

 in that State, although the produce is very 

 poor both in quantity and quality, and in most 

 instances such as our farmers would think not 

 worth being harvested. 



On Mr Marx s farm, from the superior qua 

 lity of the soil, the crop of oats was better 

 than any I had seen, but still such as would 

 with us be considered miserable ; and from 

 what I had observed, and understood from 

 Mr Marx, it was evident that the climate of 

 the States is from its heat and drought unfa 

 vourable to the growth of oats ; for although 

 when the seed is imported from Britain, the 



